What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

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In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

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This video might clear it up for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

Or the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator

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wikipedia’s editors are notorious sticklers for details, all credit to them. they never allow primary sources, and when your community is so small, decentralised, and old as VX, primary sources is all you get. so any attempt to correct that page is just reverted immediately based on the ground rules.

it’s like if one guy made a working free energy device that powered his house but he couldn’t even get anyone to come and look at it because “free energy devices don’t exist”.

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The wiki page is pretty notoriously full of inaccuracies, especially for small-scale personal VX setups - not really worth reading imo.

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