I mean like:
If someone were to say “Lets Kill [Name of Politician]” and it gets removed, its still in modlogs. So like, I think the law still count modlogs as being on your website. So its not gonna remove legal consequences. And also, its not really gonna stop other people sympathetic to your cause from reading it from the modlogs and potentially get inspired/radicalized to do the act.
So what’s the point? Modlogs, while providing transparency, seems counterproductive.
Removing a comment also makes it impossible for people to join and carry on the conversation. Or keep on upvoting . How can one reply to something they can’t read?
In your particular case, replies such as “yes and let’s also kill this other person” , " they deserve torture beforehand " , or “let’s do it next Tuesday folks” will never see the light of day under that post. They’ll have to first go read the mod log and then contact you via DM. And DMs are between two people afaik.
So the point of removing a comment isn’t to erase the comment out of existence but just to prevent it from having any effect on people who haven’t yet read it.