Kick mic phase reverse?

I've read in a few different places, that even if using a 4 mic setup, (2 OH, snare, kick) If the kick mic is infront of the front head, you should reverse the phase in the DAW. Is this true ever? all the time? depends on the situation?

I tried it in some of my previous recordings, and sometimes it sounds way deeper, and sometimes it makes almost no difference. ALSO does this apply to a snare mic if only miced from the top mixed w/OHs?

I had another follow up question, if the kick mic sounds better phase inverted, should i do that, or switch the phase of other mics becasue of "absolute polarity" and kick drum is supposed to be "pushing" the speaker?

I don't know the answer to this, but I'd be inclined to try the kick first, particularly if you have two overheads. I generally don't like to screw with the polarity of two microphones that I've worked hard to get a beautiful stereo sound on, but maybe that's just me.

And before that, I tend to move the mics around until everything sounds as clear as possible when summing to mono...IOW, that I don't need to reverse the polarity of one of the mics because I move the mics around until I don't need to do that and the sound is as focused as possible. Now, I freely admit that I don't always do this correctly or forget and have to reverse polarity later, although for some reason, I usually forget to do this on drums.

Again, I don't know the answer to this. This is just my reaction to the question.