My goal is to kind of bring one topic at a time to the front, focus on rules/automod/community feedback, wait till things are a bit stable and move onto the next. For instance I have done some general tuning as well as made the covid bot only pipe up when someone mentions covid or covid related things in the title or body.

Currently I am starting to tweak the automod to hopefully catch less false positives about abusive language given a lot of my time so far has been approving false positives that were caught and filtered automatically. It made me realize, what does the community think about profanity? Personally? I love it at times but with some caveats.

My stance is that some is perfectly reasonable and sometimes it is just fun. But personally I am against people directly insulting each other. Like saying "Fuck you [public figure] is ok, but fuck you [reddit user] is not. We definitely have some contentious interactions given the political divide here, so I would prefer to keep personal attacks something that is against the rules for the time being. I at least am of the opinion growing a community is tougher if that community is able to verbally attack other members of the community.

How do all of you feel on this topic?