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Can anyone at CCP confirm if the timing of this rule "clarification" is down to CCP FoxFour looking for the door? As he is/was a contributor to EvE-O I'm wondering if this blog has been lurking in the shadows for quite some time.

Can anyone at CCP confirm if the timing of this rule "clarification" is down to CCP FoxFour looking for the door? As he is/was a contributor to EvE-O I'm wondering if this blog has been lurking in the shadows for quite some time.

this is why i now have 5/15 accounts unsubbed now, sold four characters, and have taken down 1 of my wormholes.

Im just going to keep going until they either respond or until I've turned off all of my accounts.

I can answer that, actually:

1. Yes it's bannable.
2. Yes that's bannable too.
3. The limit is this: 1 keypress = 1 action.

I used to have to press Ctrl-Shift-E to engage drones, now I press G3. That's allowed.
Pressing G3 to activate all hardeners = bannable.
Pressing G3 to emulate a single mouse click = allowed.
Pressing G3 to send a wall of text to Jita local chat, so you can scam with text and links to your contracts = bannable.

There is a grey area, though: You can fully control the EVE UI with just the keyboard. You can set focus to the Overview, arrow down till you select your target, then press the target lock key. Can be done with a non-programmable keyboard.

If you do it with the mouse, it's one keypress: Ctrl-click on the target in the overview locks it. So the grey area is this: would a G15 macro that does [overview focus], down arrow, down arrow, down arrow, down arrow, ctrl-click be illegal?

The issue is if you press G5 to overheat high slots 1,3 and 5. Because your 1 keypress (G5) presses Alt+F1, Alt+F3 and Alt+F5 for you.

Your examples are correct.
The second example allows multiple clients to be controlled from a single application focus, without needing to bring each individual full game client to the front of your screen.
You can tile the windows in the first example, but you need to very precisely sequentially click through them in that exact order to execute orders on the clients. After one round of click-throughs, you need to spend several seconds/a minute re-layering each window in the right focus order in order to repeat this cycle again. This is simply unmanageable and useless outside of travelling around/non-active gameplay.
Going back to your second example, it allows all those clients to be managed without this hassle, and more actively and beyond what most players have access to do.

See this? This is the kind of **** that shouldn't be possible in EVE, it allows one player to control 11 Algos' in PVP simultaneously, allowing for outcomes that shouldn't be possible.
Scale this up to larger entities, you have players deploying a dozen dreads from one player using 3rd Party Client Management tools to control all of them far more efficiently than if they had to click through each of the clients one-by-one.
I've managed up to 4 clients simultaneously without 3rd party tools for Escalations and general EVE stuff (one hauling, links, pvp ship, something sitting idle) - it's hard to actively manage more than 2 clients at once using Windowed Mode.

I don't believe that CCP ever intended for a single player to control 11 accounts simultaneously in active PVP, try doing this kind of thing without ISBoxer or other tools that allow clients to be overlaid and pinned on top of each other in a way that allows interaction with each, without Windows adjusting forward focus/on top layering of the currently selected window.
You're being deliberately dense if you can't see that clear distinction between these things (using what they provide, and modifying the usage of their client through 3rd party apps), but you're even denser if you can't see that it's tied to a massive post about RMTing.

They're giving a heads up to people using ISBoxer to print ISK all day in whatever way they do, for RMTing purposes. After this heads up it's ban-town folks. The Stormtrooper dude with his 11 Algos isn't their target or focus, they don't really care about that guy, he's an anomaly. They care about those printing isk all day and want to have a rule to point to when they ban those accounts.