No I didn't. I pushed on the first day. If you don't believe me, there are plenty of posts I can cite to prove this: I created /r/NoTap, and I've had to defend being the creator after posting here since day one with a 59s flair (and why I was advocating /r/NoTap). So my flair date is well on record at this point.
No, I just don't see giving any potential joy to the author of this extension. This event has gone on for 10+ days now, and for some that's 10+ days of not pressing. They should be more careful in what they install. But even if the author was trying to showcase how they should be more careful, causing harm wasn't the way to do it. They could have written an extension that replaced the /r/thebutton frontpage with a huge warning
"WHY WOULD YOU INSTALL SOMETHING MINDLESSLY LIKE THAT?? I COULD EASILY HAVE MADE THIS AUTOMATICALLY PUSH THE BUTTON.
Now THAT would have been funny.
Malicious intent is malicious intent. There are users who have put a lot of time already into this event, and are really enjoying it. Why should we laugh at their misfortune and say it's ok because "it's a game they're playing online".
I agree, it is just a game online, and I think it's a silly one at that. But my option is not objective truth. We are allowed to have our opinions, and we can extend that opinion to easily say things like, oh, say, "it's just a silly game, get over it", and "this shouldn't matter so much to you. If this matters that much, your life is messed up. Seek help." etc
But when we start enforcing our opinions on others, that's crossing a line. In this case, the extension author decided they would do something malicious to other users. Regardless of how they personally view the game (we do not know), they subjected others to their will that those user's presses were worthless, and pressed the button for them.
Saying this is hilarious is a way of lending support to such action. Let's make a racism analogy: A black man gets lynched. A local citizen claims (anonymously) that "that's hilarious." Did they lynch the black man? No, but they sure as hell took an immoral stance on the event, one which some might construe as supporting it.
TL;DR - The button is just a silly, inconsequential game. That doesn't mean you get to decide what it's worth is to other people. You don't get the right to mess with others like this, and it's not morally fine to laugh at their misfortune when others do it.