If you post something publicly on Twitter etc don't expect people to ask for consent to share

*they - it’s right there in their twitter description

It’s already quite a stretch to expect every commenter to have read TFA, and it’s a much bigger stretch to assume that every random HN submitter will have any clue that this person once said they would like people to stop linking their posts on HN.

What's not a stretch is using 'they' to refer to someone whose gender you don't already know.