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vBulletin may not have this capacity, but it's worth checking in to: On the board where I moderated, any time a mod made an edit to a member's post, the member got an email. We had a little box where we could explain the reason for our edit as we were making the edit. Thus, if we had to delete someone's post for being a personal attack, we could say "Post deleted due to inflammatory personal attack - please PM me if you have questions".
It made for a lot less moderator legwork, and also made for much happier members who felt like they were part of the system.
And we also did exactly what MysticCat just suggested. If we made several deletes inside a thread, we would post a message to say that we had removed posts. It served both as a explanation of our actions, and a reminder to people to cool off. Generally it came with a warning that if there were future violations the thread would be locked. (Never deleted, as I said in an earlier post (which ironically may have been deleted) we never deleted threads that had heavy conversation, we simply locked them because deletion is what upset so many people.)
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