HARDFORK 21 PREDICTIONS

Flagging Wars
If anything, getting downvoted brings out the most primitive side in people as it is a big emotional trigger. Not everyone likes everyone and it's inevitable that old grudges will be settled with some of them probably escalating making Steem a less friendly place at least the first few months.

Without anonymity, no small account in their right mind would dare flag a large account, free flag or not. Convergent linear curve makes large accounts even stronger than before.

Better Trending Page
It will be impossible to buy bad posts to the top of trending because they will get downvoted. So the trending page should improve giving Steem Inc more views and more advertisement revenue which to me always seemed the purpose for the HF.

I'm skeptical about this, if only because the trending page has been a shit show for as long as I can remember.

Bid Bots will find a way
I don't think passive return bid bots will die and they will likely find a way to keep going one way or another.

Yup.

Less engagement
The low Steem price already caused lower engagement simply because it's harder to get rewarded for it. (that's the way it works, unfortunately). Non-linear rewards will make comment upvotes impossible so I expect even less engagement in general.

I'm sure a lot of comments will turn to dust with zero payout. Not everyone knows about the dust threshold though so I don't think comments will disappear overnight, but there will definitely be less in the months to come.

Please do not upvote this comment since it will just turn to dust. Thanks.