So first off, I take no credit for the idea as I mentioned at the end of the post, those users have been talking about it way more. Then again it's nothing genius to want to remove the burn posts by getting authors with content on their post to replace them while at the same time still helping to burn steem and maintain the sbd peg. That being said

and he then will more likely vote your post.

We'd vote them higher if we were going to vote them in the first place to make up for the 10-20% burn cut, not vote whatever is burning. Just wanted to make that clear as it seems some people think they can post whatever garbage now and get a free vote because 10% is going to sbdpotato, that would be the same as the initial problem of having those posts trending.

Anyway, I get the whole "they took x amount of post rewards in the latest HF, now they want to take more" but it's a bit flawed as burnpost has existed for over two years now and it gets paused whenever the peg is maintained (AFAIK). I see these initiatives as helping Steem and the authors in the long term even though right now it might mean less rewards for them in general.

I also hate to say this but I don't think we're in a position where we can complain about where the rewardpool goes or that our content is not getting "enough" rewards when there's almost nothing you can compare it to. Mark Zuckerberg is not inflating his FB shares to reward his 2b+ users. Bad analogy probably but you catch my drift, we're not using adrevenue/sponsorships like the usual ways users/authors/influencers monetize their content.

Anyway, fixing the peg, getting sbd back to being printed will help Steem and in turn authors again. This is just a "now" problem and won't persist once bull money starts flowing back in. Saying that "whales" don't want to reward content creators, after they're one of the main reason Steem has had any value for over 3 years (at least until distribution is a lot better and there's way more 1k-50k sp unique accounts having more power over the allocation of the rewardpool) and after rewarding content creators over $70m by now (ask yourself where the majority of accounts with a lot of post rewards on their steemd's are now) is a bit unfair, imo.

They see the need to burn rewards and put buy pressure onto sbd with inflated rewards, they don't want to clog up trending either since we for once are getting a good content discovery and pob going. So let's meet them halfway to help fund their initiatives while getting higher votes for the amount we burn to at least equal it out and at the end of the day it just means extra visibility for the authors (which is literally the main proposition of bid bots so there must be some benefit to getting that).