I'm sorry to hear that but if we do not see it we cannot act,the report button lets us know something is there so please any members see anything use it
TBH jase that route isnt very reliable trust me on that mate.
I hope your approach is adopted by all moderators now, as I've seen a fair few threads with mods involved with swearing & the post/thread remained even after someone reported.
I'm behind the hierarchy on this 100%, but surely everyone should be reading from the same rule book & it would seem thats not been the case & its not a dig at mods, its true though, which some mods recently know my words hold water even if they dont want to admit to it, lol.
I'd prefer it if we stamped out the appalling grammar and spelling rather than the 'swears'.
I dont think its anywhere near as bad as people are indicating, I read alot of threads/posts a day & I would say 99.99999% of them are very legible & since using the forum I havnt had to double take posts more than 3-4 times & that person did have genuine issues or so they said & I also think this will lead to a bigger issue mate.
Thats a good call,once the swearfilter is locked and loaded that will be next.
I try and let new members know but rather than jumping down their necks I try to edit their posts to make them legible.
Aha so my suggestion was taken seriously then, lol.
I think thats a fairer approach if the filters dont catch some, just edit the post & maybe a PM depending how severe the words used are would be best method, I would say you would get far more respect as moderators this way instead of coming down on members like a ton of bricks, cause sometimes as much as we all like to be on the ball & not children, we do get carried away, all of us aswell not just lowly members, eg. the normal friday night pissheads who become the Jekyl & Hydes & dont remember a thing the following day.
Now the new forum rules have spelt out what we expect of members in this area us moderators will be looking at this quite closely and some people can expect to receive a PM asking them to improve their game.
This will also apply to 'text speak' and 'lazy typing' (ie not using the shift key when appropriate). All these things may seem trivial but they have been developed over many years to make the reading of English so much easier for everyone.
So are we saying that profanity, even when in context and not as an insult is prohibited as well and that this ban is all-encompassing?
I'll admit I've been party to using some profanity in the past when my cage was rattled which maybe I should of not bitten, but I'm human (I think) as all so everyone has a biting point & I have used the feck & sh1t words before when I've experienced or read something that was rather crappy, but I see no reason for swearing to be used in many threads, even if you've lost your job or your cars been stolen, why should you need to use words like Fxxx, Cxxx, Wxxxxx, its not a nice read especially in an open public forum.
But I will say you cant expect everyone to use perfect oxford english & punctuation all the time, that really is being pedantic, no disrespect to anyone, but this is a public forum so you could get varying levels of IQ on here that might not know how to properly word things, admittedly not many would be like this, but this could almost turn into a form of racism/equality & you'll end up in an even more serious situation than you are now.
I understand this as have a family member that suffers with a learning disorder, minor, but they would have issues with using this forum if you were to pile drive down on them everytime they forgot to have correct punctuation etc, that kind of action by the moderators could have rather serious implications, so I think you're treading on thin ice by trying to get everyone to be perfect english, its impossible to achieve & unfair to knock people who maybe do you a genuine issue.
There have been very heated arguments over this subject aswell which I'm sure the powers that be want to avoid, so maybe caution on the subject is advised as nobody knows a persons level of understanding of proper english.
Although I will agree some are lazy when it comes to the use of the language, but I wouldnt see that as a reason to have a warning, but hey thats me.
...... come on guys i think this might be a step too far. 
