User blog:Ailourophile/The Swearing Rule

So, today in chat, a user literally left chat BECAUSE users were swearing at them. He had asked why the swearing rule was enabled, and politely asked some users to quit swearing at him. But instead, they just kept swearing to irritate him. Eventually he left, but not before saying he won't come back.

Sure, most users do that, but instead of just explaining the swearing rule, you just chase him out? The wiki needs more members as it is, and this user was pretty nice. He wasn't trolling or spamming at all. He was minimoding, I'll say that, but from what I remember, nobody warned him about it. (I told him in PM, but apparently PM screenshots aren't proof enough, so there's no point in showing them. If you want them I'll put them up here.)

So, maybe we should redo the rule. I'm not saying that we should remove it as that would probably drive a lot of users off, but we should explain it more. I mean, it's really vague:


 * "Cussing is allowed but don't overdo it. Use those words tastefully. "

Okay, I can easily guess what "tastefully" means, and I'm sure most users can too, but there's the occasional...person that probably won't. So personally, I think we should narrow it down, since what I saw today was kind of ridiculous on both halves -- someone minimodding, and people abusing a rule.

So maybe, we should redo it?

Please put your ideas below.