The Potency of a Boss Call in Rabbinic Literature

There's a reason why the grand dispute about the potency of a boss call in rabbinic literature is precisely whether you can use it to decide questions as opposed to just prompt inspiration. Have I interpreted it properly? Can I be sure it's coming from from the person or being to whom I've attributed it? And there's there's that uncertainty about it that that makes it so delicious and potent at the exact same time.