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?
New users are faggots come to pollute our community.
Fuck 'em.
Yeah, you faggots are alright. But some of the missing comments look pretty decent sometimes too.
Listen, I'm just saying that if you don't gatekeep then your community goes to shit.
I get it, and 100% true. But it's a gate so you can still occasionally let the good ones in, otherwise you're just walled off. Which isn't always a bad thing either, if the freak tide is too high, sealing off is better than being flooded.
Just keeping an eye on the balance