What you actually want is counter intuitively a longer timer.
Longer timer means fewer gank ships, and more time for bystanders / escorts to intervene.
There are some other changes that would be good alongside that.
What I feel we want to see is something like a ww2 bombing raid happening. Natural grouping of industrials for mutual protection, gankers like fighters snacking around the edges looking for a lone industrial falling behind the pack etc.
This still gives gankers plenty of kills which is healthy but actually makes defending yourself possible in ways that aren’t “just don’t be there”.
Ah yes the Salvos Thread Shred. Where it impeccably veered off course into a thread lock most of the time. A few of them definitely did their best to get things locked ASAP so conversation would come to a screeching halt.
Though there are a couple more beyond what Jonah mentioned. But its been long enough I’d have to hit the archives to remember.