Thank you a great deal for this reply. Learning what other community members want to see was one of the reasons I wrote this article.

The current ratio is somewhere around 90% content creators, and 10% content consumers.

This is one of the best pieces of feedback HIVE can receive at the moment. We need to have more people who are visit our front ends the way blogs are usually visited. We need some plans to bring in readers which can then be converted to users or be monetized with decentralized ads.

Because Blogger (Google) pay many of its users. YouTube (also Google) too.

That is true. The difference on blockchain is that everyone is monetized from the very first day and the minimum payout is a fraction of a cent.

It takes only one person with higher amount of Hive power to downvote someone's posts to zero, and the reputation of a user below zero

This is similar to shadowbanning than outright censorship. Abusing downvotes is a serious issue and I have seen many good people get discouraged by it and leave HIVE. Downvote trails are still a better alternative than a centralized system of content moderation. We are going to need some system to moderate content and these tools get abused by bad people. We have to choose the less bad option and try to find ways to minimize the problems caused by downvotes.

I read this from someone else in the recent past. That the people are afraid to comment, because they fear that they say something wrong.

This is the most disheartening thing to read in your reply. These people should at the very least create an alt account to voice their opinions. I have received large downvotes for saying certain things. It's not good to see hundreds of dollars worth potential earnings disappear. I want people to be able to express their opinions freely. I do think we are light years ahead of traditional social media. We simply have a long way left to go.