why not just punish the individual offenders for abusing the shoutbox rules? I see the same members using grubby and dirty foul language, not only in the shoutbox but also in the forums. Im not naming these members but they are indeed regular. And I think these people should be punished or warned regardless of their status here.
Just because they've made a couple of contributions here and done a few layouts shouldn't give them a free ticket to using obscene vocal.
I haven't seen any posts were the forum rules have been broken!! You can swear in posts to a level,it's if you are directing the abusive language directly at someone then the rules should com in to affect.