That doesn't make sense. It's like saying that the best general advice about which way to turn when you're driving is to turn right. From your comment at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44493308, and from the fact that you used the passive voice in your comment ("they should be avoided") apparently without noticing, it appears that the reason you have this opinion is that you don't know what the passive voice is in the first place.