Bad practice to always fill recordable media dvd etcetera to the max limit?

I burn a lot of dvd, bluray etcetera.
I see that for example Blu Ray Bd-R has a max capacity of 23.31 GB (single layer).
I have heard that you are not suppose to fill it to the max limit due to quality of burning for long time storage, but cannot understand why eventually.
Any good guidelines for this?

Yes, I agree, the chance of bad sectors, or the need for an extra metafile block can means filling the disc is undesirable, especially if just adding plain data.
Here's what I have to say about CDs*:
http://www.macmaps.com/cdrfailure.html

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