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first of all in my opinion it WAS sonething “bad” which is why it was removed.
second of all you are correct in that “EDITED” can sometimes make it look like something worse was removed than actually the case. my preference would be to not write: “EDITED” on the majority of edited posts unless it was a very significant edit
unfortunately there are a number of posters who think they know how to moderate better than the moderators and like to inform of us of their ideas. many have expressed total outrage at the practice of editing posts without such indications. so therefore we incidate the edit in all cases (except spelling or the like.)