alt Hacker NewsReinforcing an avoidance tactic is nowhere near as effective as doing that PLUS enforcing a positive tactic. People with loads of 'DONT', 'STOP', etc. in their instructions have no clue what they're doing.
In your own example you have all this huge emphasis on the negatives, and then the positive is a tiny un-emphasized afterthought.
I think you're generally correct, but certainly not definitively, and I worry the advice and tone isn't helpful in this instance with an outcome of this magnitude.
(more loosely: I'm a big proponent of this too, but it's a helluva hot take, how one positively frames "don't blow away the effing repro" isn't intuitive at all)