Comments on React feature guidelines?
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React feature guidelines?
I think we should try to come up with some consensus regarding how to use the new reactions feature, more specifically the "outdated" and "dangerous" options. Which kind of posts should these be used on?
Otherwise, I can see how these quickly turn subjective without some community consensus or guidelines. There are a lot of old things that could very subjectively and arguably be classified as "outdated". Though there may be perfectly valid reasons why they are the correct choice: price & availability, EMC, tool costs and so on.
For example, if it was up to me personally, I would for example flag any solution using 8-bit microcontrollers as completely outdated - which I realize is quite controversial and something that would immediately spark some off-topic 8-bit vs 32-bit debate in comments.
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I think "dangerous" is pretty clear. It's when doing as recommended can cause significant damage to property or health.
For example, recommending to a hobbyist to make a direct line-connected capacitor charge pump power supply for powering his breadboard would qualify.
Dangerous does not mean you won't get the required result, unless not getting that result poses a danger itself. A bad circuit to start a water cooling pump of a nuclear reactor might possibly be labeled dangerous, but even that is pushing the intent a bit.
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