It's been a long time now of watching instantly deleted handshake comments and going to the mod logs and seeing dozens or hundreds of what look like mostly reasonable comments auto-deleted in the week(s) since Dom was last active.
I know things were set up extra draconian to deter a certain child bride and gore themed obsessive trolling campaign, but I haven't seen them caught in the net in a long time. All I'm seeing are tens of fresh users getting sandbagged for weeks and never coming back.
It might be time to try loosening the muzzle a bit?
There should be an option to let us disable moderation and see (and interact) with all without having to browse the mod logs.
The more fragile souls among us can keep the bubble wrapped safe space option enabled by default.
I suspect that the place would immediately be drown under a torrent of stormfag wannabees calling for genocide for the Jews.
At that point the potential new members would drop to zero.