User blog comment:Mystreve/Writer's Lounge Part 1: An Interview with Slimebeast/@comment-1186783-20140805164403/@comment-5943448-20140831181452

The "Experience vs. Opinion" thing is kind of over-simplified, just a way to get the point out there. Essentially, writers can usually offer some sort of guide about what did or didn't work for them, and readers can offer what they like, don't like, etc. Both are valuable, but with the latter, you WILL find two or more readers with completely different opinions.

"This sucks" and "This is the best I've ever seen", etc.

I feel like it's important for folks to realize opinions are plentiful and you'll never satisfy them all - or even most of them. With other writers, they might say: "Yeah, this part doesn't work" and you can look at that as experience talking. He's tried that and it didn't work, or he's thought about that and found reasons against doing it, etc.

It's by no means a perfect system. Not every bit of advice from another writer is going to be gold or even something that just works for you personally.