My pleasure!
I absolutely agree with your every single word! (I myself have run a blog before steemit existed, too.) I can say that I feel the same as you. For me, I used to be flagged in my many posts a long time ago, at that time, I stopped posting for a while until everything be better.....
Your sentence, "Such behaviour was what made many heart of the previously passionate members turned cold gradually", is exactly what I think. I'm missing them, too.
At least, for now, I'm glad that we (you and I) still have hope in this community. In the meantime, I'm missing @jaki01, too. I do really hope that everything would be better and he will be back and start posting again soon.;)