Does overexposing help get a better RAw file in the OMd?

Detail Man wrote:

I am usually serious when I write, but Andy's statement that "whites should be white, and blacks should be black" (or something) caused me to satirically write, "what if my grays aren't gray?". Then you jumped onto the "bandwagon", with (something like), "adjust the tone-curve". So I satirically wrote to you something like, "think outside of the monochromatic box". The entire exchange was (in my view) just silly stuff. Nothing much to take seriously at all. Yes, "adjust the tone curve" ...