Hector Martin

That's true, but ultimately by posting on a public platform you should be prepared for arbitrary amounts of attention, no?

It can certainly be surprising or unexpected of course, perhaps unwelcome, but ultimately something to be accepted IMO.

eh, things change a bit at scale: getting derisively RTed by certain folks can bring days of harassment or worse

for folks who normally have a couple hundred followed and aren't saying anything super controversial, it's unexpected

RT with negative commentary/context is different. I just don't see a policy of "ask before you RT" as reasonable.

oh, to be clear, they don't ask before they RT *anything*. They asked because the topic invites harassment.

same with my example. I've started asking about RTing things like that since then

Not saying being cautious is bad, what I'm getting at is can you really be blamed for not asking.