So if people think that only their words get edited, then they will post them. If they know their whole post will get deleted, they won't. If the mod is to light on people, he will just get ran over by them.

The edit alternative is suspension or banning. But suspension often makes people leave. So the modding has to be imediate, and straight forward.

New members would get a chance to know the rules. Ones that have been here and know better get there posts deleted for cussing, or abuse. If it happens because the member wants to agravate the mod or admin, then banning is in order.

About banning:

There are two ways to ban. One has already been rejected by one poster, which makes no difference to me.

1) Ban from whole forum.
2) Ban from the Christian sections (Bible and CVE section). Which means those section would disappear to the banned poster. But they can post anywhere else in the forum.