Even if you know that the strategy is problematic in scenario Y, other viewers of the reply may not; you are only one of the many potential consumers of the res

Even if you know that the strategy is problematic in scenario Y, other viewers of the reply may not; you are only one of the many potential consumers of the response. Isn't it useful to flag the potential gotchas of a given approach for a naive reader? I feel like many of the complaints Stack Overflow users come down to this: in many users' minds, the site is a Q&A forum, while the SO team wants it to be an authoritative repository of technical knowledge.