What a great article and its articulation definitely easily approachable for the main crowd. Great job!

Hey, in relation to the #1: "if a moderator is being a fascist, then users would just vote with their feet and move on", I thought there could be a "tracker.bot" keeping track of such moderators poking their zeal everywhere and getting the boot everywhere. Let's say that at a certain % of a circle of nodes consistantly moving away from his or her node, like a predator leaving empty space away from themselves as they are on the hunt, this specific moderator would have to respond to a chosen neutral representative group representing either our whole community or a specific group of Steemit users, under the tutelage of that neutral arbitration, this user could be offered to moderate themselves using a specific set of rules and duty they'd have to conform to, otherwise get the actual boot out of the community? This way, as a community, we empower ourselves with what the first nations of this world have used sustainably for thousands of years, reparative justice, because, playing game of destructions make many pretty high these days...

The parallel with the launchpad at the very end of your article was juicy and still makes me salivate. ;) Thanks for the scrumptious image. All for one and one for all!!! Namaste :)