I see that my original post and this entire thread has been moved from General Chat to here. I'll step back in and add one last thought. It seems that the answer is right here in the site use rules:
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Most of the posts that have caused all the grief and fire storms in General Chat directly violate the above quoted rules--especially "...which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory..." and "...which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law."
Ban those who violate the rules and 99.9% of the problem goes away.