Moral Dilemma

A long time ago some really nasty trolls were verbally abusing me in the newsgroups. I figured right quick that any response would only lead to more abuse so I stopped posting to the groups and I went my merry way.

But before I left I set up a GPT-style bot to autopost to the groups each time they reply to my bot posts. After nearly two years later I opened the groups in a news reader to discover that the same trolls had been responding to the bot posts all that time. They were still going at it with their abuse of the bot. The retards are oblivious.

I have a moral dilemma. I feel a bit guilty, knowing that my bot has wasted what probably amounts to dozens of hours of their pathetic lives reading and responding to my bot posts.

Should I pull the plug on the bot?

Or should I set the bot to use more aggressive phrases and get popcorn?