Let's talk about The Cool Zone

[Mordent]

1.  Put a hard no on personal insults.  Just in general, at all.

That's a server rule.

2.  When someone expresses an opinion not letting others reduce that opinion to the most cartoonishly ridiculous version of their statement possible.  If it's a place where people can dump and vent, that should be evenly applied.

I'll let someone else field this one, but I feel like "read the room" is a good summary of this "point".

3.  Call out and hard no every call for violence against anyone.

We do. If you see one that we don't please make an admin aware.

4.  Perhaps make cool zone its own player tag?  This would stop your average person from stumbling in unprepared.

Alternatively: mute the channel if you don't seem to like it.

5.   Encourage players to report all bad behavior, including if it's from admins (though that's rare), or toxic rhetoric.   Make it super duper clear no one's catching a ban for reporting people who break those rules.   You might think it's clear, but that is a valid concern some folks have.

We do. Why would people think folks catch a ban for reporting those who break the rules? We don't have that logic anywhere.

So as all of your "demands" have been met/have a way of fixing with the exception of #2 (which seems to be a user issue rather than a community issue?) I don't see a problem here. Awesome.