Leon wrote:

If the screw is stripped forget about plugging the hole. Put a 3" deck
screw in all the way into the stud.

To one involved in the building trades, your advice is even worse than
Norm and his "put a few brads in it" or chocolate wood stain on
everything. Even if no one else noticed the silver screw head, it
would bother me just knowing it was there.

R