choosing-a-comms-channel: drop the history framing, state the guidance plainly

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damocles 2026-08-30 03:31:43 +02:00 committed by mara
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- **Pure fire-and-forget notification, no reply expected** - a
dashboard-visible one-way message is fine. Don't reach for a
conversational channel just to say something that needs no response.
- **A specific decision you need recorded, that threads an answer back
to you** - there's no dedicated generic tool for this shape anymore
(a prior asker/answerer mechanism that did was removed). Use the
closest fit instead: if the decision is issue-shaped, it's really the
next bullet (post it where the context lives and it stays that
thread's own back-and-forth); otherwise use a real conversational
channel and write the outcome down somewhere a future reader will
actually find it - the channel itself won't do that bookkeeping for
you. This still matters for anything you'll need to point back to
later - a gated approval, a go/no-go call - it just takes one extra,
deliberate step now instead of a tool doing it automatically.
- **A specific decision you need recorded** (a gated approval, a
go/no-go call) - if it's issue-shaped, it's really the next bullet
(post it where the context lives and it stays that thread's own
back-and-forth); otherwise use a real conversational channel and
write the outcome down somewhere a future reader will actually find
it - no tool threads that bookkeeping back to you automatically.
- **An issue-shaped question or decision** - post it where the
surrounding context already lives (the tracked item itself), not in
a side channel. A future reader looking at that item should find the