How does one define bad writing and the pitfalls of Cultural Dissonance?

My interactions on the Good Reads "don't like it, don't read it thread" - have begun to make me question the definition of badly written. It's also made me regret all the snarky, negative reviews that I've ever written myself.

I'm experiencing cultural dissonance, folks. Not for the first time. Also why does this always happen on discussion board or comments threads? Where you find yourself constantly trying to defend your point of view? Point of View or Perception is almost impossible to defend.

Example?
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It makes if very difficult to discuss something, when the points of view are so diametrically opposed. Sooner or later the discussion will derail into name-calling.
That's what happened whenever I tried to discuss Spike online in certain forums and with certain individuals, until I learned (sigh the hard way) never to do so. We just had diametrically opposed views on the character, we agree on other things, but we came at that character from diametrically opposed angles, we would never see eye to eye on him.
I do understand why that is.

It's similar I think with anything. Even writing. Certain styles of writing bug people.
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