Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24552788-20140628125217/@comment-5295601-20141021015119

452 wrote: Callofduty4 wrote: Screenshots are never permissible as evidence in user disputes. ...if they are unable to be verified.

InuyashaMangoCherryLemonPapaya's screenshot is verifiable, and potentially a good idea, since that particular reply has been "removed", although not "deleted".

While it is clearly more useful to link directly to the removed reply or the diff, a less technical user may decide to take a screenshot instead. Since it is possible to check if the screenshot is authentic, it should not be dismissed out of hand simply because it is a screenshot.

Had Wintermelon43 decided to delete the reply entirely, the screenshot would be the only publicly available "evidence", so it would still be useful to provide to staff, or other admins, so that they could investigate the deleted comment. Those are links to evidence, not screenshots. Thus, the screenshots themselves cannot be used, but the links can be. Additionally, even if the screenshots can be verified, there would be no point in using them since the link is more convienent and reliable anyway.