Hector Martin

for me it's safe to assume you can RT anything I top-leveled whenever

Is that not the case for some people? I mean, it's a public medium after all.

Heck, even @-replies. RTing those might be rude/confusing, but ought not to be dangerous.

the amount of Attention that retweeting can bring scales alarmingly. However I happen to feed on dark energy

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

have you ever triggered the kind of mob that can come up in these cases? I haven’t.

I think the only time I set off a Twitter mob on someone was grsec, but he was asking for it with the blockfest.