I created this post to share some thoughts and revelations I had over the last few hours
Few hours ago, I decided to combat the malicious spam-comments that were targeting new posts to share lies about Smartsteem.com (Background Story) with a simple script which either comments with 
And it worked.
But due to the sheer amount of comments that he user created with his accounts - my own comments quickly became SPAM as well. (4-6 comments per minute)
Which made me realize that I was actually doing pretty much the same thing as the Spammer.
Doing a bad thing for a good-cause is not ok
I was doing a bad thing for a good-cause.
And the Spammer also probably believes that he is doing it for a good cause.
So I ultimately decided to stop the comment- & flag-initiative.
And this also brings be to the following point ...
Be loyal to your innermost truth
There is a saying I often remember ever since I read it on the profile of a great steemian (
Be loyal to your innermost truth. Forgive those who are not; as they do not know the way. - 8888
I was feeling very restless the last few hours, after I activated the script and when I finally went to bed; I couldn't sleep.
Even though I didn't know exactly why - my body knew something wasn't right.
And now - after I disabled the script: I feel much better.
Even though the comments are created nonetheless without even getting downvoted and lies are spread across Steem - I feel that my actions are now much more aligned with my innermost truth.
I want to end this post by saying that I'm very, very grateful about the love I've received on my previus post (staring into the face of hate) by so many steemians commenting.
Not a single comment or message on discord / steem.chat was negative - it was all positive vibes.
Thank you!
PS: I actually wanted to decline payout and activated it in settings, but it didn't work. (my guess is that I should have reloaded the site afterwards)
So, please keep in mind that I made this post to share my thoughts :)