Would "Has <programming practice> ever gone badly wrong" questions be on topic here?

Question

I'm wondering if questions about whether a given programming practice has ever been the cause of a large problem, would be on topic here.

Note that when I say "programming practice" I mean a way of using one or more programming languages, not features of programming languages.

So programming practices would include particular design patterns or things like Yoda conditions but not things like dynamic typing.

I'm fairly certain that any question starting with "What are the worst ways that..." would be considered off-topic, so I would word questions like these in a definitely answerable way. "Has the Singleton Pattern ever gone badly wrong?" is a yes or no question, (which I already know the answer to.) I'm interested in knowing whether a particular technique has a failure mode and how bad it was if so, not in hearing a bunch of horror stories like this question that was marked non-constructive produced or making fun of obviously bad ideas.

(I asked this same question on SO's meta and was told it was off-topic.)

Answer 1

This would be off topic as it's far too broad.

Like Stack Overflow we're after specific, answerable questions, not a wide ranging discussion.

You'd be better off asking this on somewhere like Quora or Reddit.