It took me a while to reply to you here as I wrote a long reply that got deleted by the UI, then many people contacted me and then I had to sleep ;)
I wrote in my original post here:
In short, while he wasn't originally seeing downvoting as being a problem for free speech on Hive, after explaining the less obvious details he added support for experiments to reduce the amount of free downvotes available to Hive users to his support for free speech in general.
So I was highlighting that it sounded from your words that your desire to see data from such experiments was in part due to an interest in free speech issues. If you are saying, through later clarification due to my misunderstanding, that in fact you do not support the reduction of free downvotes - even if the data shows that this can be achieved without harming the ability of the network to fight spam and plagiarism - and you simply want to see the data for some other reason that won't influence your thinking on downvoting policy in future.. Then that's something I would appreciate if you would spell out, as - being as clear as I can be - the vote proxy here is for witnesses who are open to adjusting this policy on Hive, should data be produced that suggests it is a practical and valuable idea.
I notice that Azircon dropped his vote for you, presumably simply because I voted for you and because I am interested in a data driven decision to reduce the amount of free downvotes. I will leave it to observers to determine exactly what this means about Azircon's intentions for Hive.