Is there ANY relevant difference between soft delete and set invisible?

In my opinion AT ALL, sorry. One of these is really useless. Moderators are confused from this and I get lot of questions about this.

Invisible posts are posts that are not approved, because you can set so that posts need to be approved prior to show. Deleted posts are deleted posts. They are NOT the same.

Invisible posts show up in the moderator queue, and you'll end up quite confused when you actually have unapproved posts.

 

Is there ANY relevant difference between soft delete and set invisible?

In case you knew that but still don't see the difference, think of it in a practical manner.

When someone who is on mod-q makes a post, that post is unapproved/invisible until someone approves it.

Soft deleted is the same except that the post has been viewed by someone and was either not approved (deleted instead) or was visible but someone deleted it for some reason. At least this way, you know that it's not a post pending approval instead of a post that was visible but got unapproved.

Wolfie you gave me an idea. I'll allow soft delete for all members (now they cannot delete posts). When someone mistakenly deletes post, moderator can restore it.