<p>Uh, I had completely forgotten that I ever wrote this, and I can't believe I didn't somehow add an "if moderator" check but reviewing the changes now it seems I indeed haven't. Sorry for that.</p>
<p>What I wanted to achieve with this was a really lightweight way of "not blasting out advertising through our web site". I view any kind of redaction as a heavy-handed meddling with our data that leads to inconsistencies with the history (someone might once have taken a snapshot of our data and now even our historic data doesn't fit the snapshot any more), and would reserve that for really important cases. For a mere advertising slogan, suppressing its publication on the web page seemed the better alternative; it's not something so evil that it must be hidden from everyone even when accessing the API.</p>
<p>What I wanted was cosmetics, whereas redaction is surgery.</p>
<p>I don't have strong feelings either way. I can see how my lightweight approach might seem unsatisfactory from a data model perspective because it introduces a hitherto unknown "this exists but isn't shown on the web page" state. What I submitted was simply the best I could come up in the short time I had allowed myself.</p>
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