easiest fix.... treat 'professional' sports like the rage inducing cancer that it is and cut it out of your life. never watch it, refuse to talk about it. let it die essentially. take the money you would have spent, and save it.
I personally haven't seen or experienced it, however I haven't been actively looking though. hopefully they can implement something to mitigate the issues
hmm didn't think it was that bad. yeah that feature might be half decent if someone was able to implement it and could mitigate a bunch of nonsense posts like you're describing
in regards to 'not interacting with new users', I think that's a bad idea. how will any community/server/instance grow if you never reply or interact with new accounts?
so long as the mods block the obvious trolls/bots/bad actors, I see no reason in why you, or anyone should be avoiding new account interactions.
if you see something nefarious, report it, block them yourself and move along. Let the mods do what they are already doing.
I would say yes but only to a select few things like mushrooms or marijuana since they are not modified by humans and can be harvested directly from the plant/ground.
anything that requires human intervention like acid, cocaine etc... I'd say no
wouldn't a chip missing mean it's intact?