>The rules were changed because Rick's behavior was alienating Michel's paying customers. Michel made a business decision. Rick made a decision to break the rules, knowing he'd be banned.

I had guessed that within the # of half a week he would be banned -

>As I said elsewhere, Foxite introduced a similar rule a few weeks ago, and Rick's having no trouble obeying that one for the moment. So he is capable of dropping the religious talk; he just chose not to here.

but I am surprized that he shows different preaching behaviour in Foxite - wonder why he choose to prefer choose to be banned here and not over there, as I always read his technical advice and seldom found faults in those...

>So no, I don't think the rules were changed "in order to ban Rick." I think the rules were changed in an attempt to change Rick's behavior.

Now that IMO is an overinterpretation. They were changed to curb unwanted behaviour here - one way or another ;-)