Here is my thinking which could well be all totally wrong because I'm a bit clueless about Hive:

If I put do a post on burn any rewards will go mainly to the insider circle jerk cabal's posts so I would be helping to fund associates of the very accounts that downvote me.

The main objective of the whales who want to block me is to take my rep down even lower so that they can use bot autovoting to take it all the way down below zero so my posts won't show. I do have about 20 alt accounts and only one of them has a negative rep so far, but I can't be arsed with these games.

To my amazement, they do actually seem to manually monitor what I post and downvote strategically when they get a chance. For comments it's mainly just bot auto downvoting, but for posts some whales pop up when they get an opportunity.

So just turning the rewards off is easier for me - it's been a long time since I earned meaningful rewards on Hive anyway, and I certainly never will with the current owner/controllers. But that is OK, if this platform could work as a uncensored blogging platform I am interested anyway, hence sounding it out again at the moment.