"Removing rewards does not impact free speech."
That's blatantly false. Huge numbers of folks signed up and were flagged of the platform. Some may be glad of their silence, but our platform has fewer users today, and many of those people weren't spammers anymore than I am.
OTOH, I may not so vehemently disagree. I'm not particularly sure it was the financial hit so much as the insult of being serially flagged and reduced in rep that so angers folks they rage quit.
Whether or not it's the rewards, serial massive downvotes stop people from posting, as you well know.
It's what you do to stop spam.
This post is about changing the window at 6.5 days. If someone is flagging to "censor" someone they are not doing it at 6,5 days. So it's kind of a moot argument.
For the people that were "flagged off" I'd bet it was about rewards.
You'd lose that bet.
However, in regards to the window, where such flags are contested, they end up there, so they can't be contested.
Why are you pretending not to understand? Do you think ignoring things makes them go away? Or are you intent on actually causing the exact thing you pretend not to understand?