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?
Me too, but if we can tune down the collateral without letting it in that'd be better.
There's no good filter setting that runs automatically without intervention. You just need an active mod who reviews the logs and can "unban" legit users right away.
u/GangstaTrump below looks like a reasonable poster who didn't even know his comments were being hidden.
Unfortunately we're stuck with dom instead.
I wonder if this is why pedojeet is here, to destroy engagement by forcing such aggressive filters that we stop getting legit new posters? Did anyone else notice he disappeared for a few weeks after USAIDs funds were cut?