I think you have to join the self-verification program if you want to get support from the steemit team, try reading the following link as a referencehttps://steemit.com/hive-153970/@irawandedy/lesson-6-important-basic-guide-for-newcomers

But if you want to be an independent user without expecting support from the steemit team, that's your right to participate or not in the program that is run on the Newcomers Community.

The use of the burnsteem tag is specifically for publications which divide 25% of the reward into null, this is done to reduce steem production in the market.

I hope you are wise in using tags