Back in da olden timez, we called this "trolling".

This argument has been going on as long as I've been on Mudcat... as long as I've been reading music stuff on the internet.

There are the ones who like teaching and being taught vs the ones who like observing and figuring stuff out. Rules exist for people who aren't capable of learning on their own. Of course, the self-taught can miss things, and most of us use a mixture of learning techniques.

A person who isn't any good, doesn't bother trying to learn rules.
A person who's good learns rules and follows them.
A person who's GREAT learns rules and then figures out how to successfully break them.

The B# thing is a silly argument. Yes, I understand there is a difference between B# and C, and some people actually can hear it. In the end, though, this is all language. Musical notation and language used to describe music exists so we can communicate ideas. Once it stops being about communication, language is useless. Once the words mean more to someone than the thing they describe, that person has is a problem.