Objections to the April Fools Day prank.

[fr0d0]

I was not allowed to be open with alei.

Bollocks.

You could have done the decent thing.

You could have got another staff member to vet it as you had personal attachment.

I simply do not know you personally enough to give a shit whether you think it was a good idea.

I made a point, your choice to respond or not. Our level of intimacy is irrelevant.

Given the nature of that "private" communication and that it was essentially sent to me

It was fucking not sent to you.

, I don't see the problem. She insulted me in a PM. I was not going to post it. She lied and said that she had never insulted me and that she thought our issues were squashed, so I posted it. She insulted herself and me. I merely revealed it.

It's generally accepted etiquette. You don't have to conform to that, but you should expect outrage from the majority of netizens who do.

Her insults were not to you, but to another. She didn't know that was you. You betrayed her confidence in posting her private conversation.