There are so many things wrong with OP I don't even know where to start.
First, you had the right idea, but you didn't give it enough time. You waited a week for views. For something like this, I would've tested it over six months, at least.
You let the cat out of the bag to early, and now FDev could probably hide behind the excuse of being slow. Which isn't unreasonable considering the time between major releases and stuff....
Additionally, as others have brought up in the thread and on reddit, some companies do bans in waves. Maybe Frontier is using this approach.
You are trying to catch FDev with their hand in the cookie jar and merely caught them looking at the cookie jar.
Second, Frontiers statement could have been true at the time. As far as I know, they haven't made any resent statement about what specific action they are taking against combat logging. The banning approach is way to impractical and harsh. I'm not surprised at all that they abandoned it. So you can't really accuse them of lying.
Third, this is entirely from a gameplay POV, there is no effective in game defense for freighters and explorers against legitimate-play-style'ers(they don't like to be called gankers greifers or psychos), especially now with engineer mods. Some players feel forced to combat log. Frontier has to also figure out why people combat log in the first place and make attempts to absolve that issue.
Fourth and most important, it was just an all around jerk move to test Frontier Support without their knowing like this. OP seems entirely focused on just humiliating Frontier and creating an atmosphere of discontent and distrust between the community and the devs. It is posts like these that caused FDev to be as quiet as they are. No more Dev updates no more peek of the week. It is posts like these that will truly kill ED.
