Do you realize that for a large part of would come down to: ignore all the people, do your own thing. (Which I did. Also, ignoring is difficult if you keep being followed based on false accusations.) And either push through with/for your project by yourself, or drop it and start over.
Again, the advice looks nice, but in the end it results in having to do things on your own, because people are being (at that time) assholes and don't want to know better.
The advice isn't bad. That's not my point. It's that at some point your options become severely limited and it's based on lies and deception.
