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'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.