I am trying to imagine a scenario in which this not only annoys me, but where my solution is to neither turn-off-retweets or silently unfollow, but a secret, confrontational thing

Please continue. It actually made me to click on some of your articles. And I'm a Twitter user. Normally I can't read.

Heartbreaking. They don't know about the "Turn off Retweets" feature.

They took the time to point out your flaws, the least you can do is take the time to completely redo how you operate in order to please them!

Retweets are optional, they're just cowards

Buried the lede here, you found someone who actually clicks through to read the articles

I think there’s something to be said about not needing to click the link if you can just read the retweets.

There are articles???

Time to make an article about people complaining about the RTs.

Wait these are jokes ????