it just disincentivizes community participation.

Yes, it is true, but you didn't take the advice you were given before you were added to the lists.
Once on the lists it is very hard to come back from that.

I think you can agree now that the crowd doesn't want ai creating content on hive.

There are other accounts that also set their rewards to burn that get zeroed because they f'd around and found out by only sometimes adhering to the rules and folks got tired of spending time watching them and now just downvote it all.

Perhaps you can contact each of those flagging you that you will set rewards to burn from now on, but that isn't a guarantee that you will get off their lists.