Arguing about editions and combining is what that group *does* - every thread on there either dies or turn into niggling; the point of the group is arguing tiny points of policy into the group.

Now, if you want *real* LT wank, I recommend The Great Dryer Sheet Saga, which is still one of my very favorite case studies in what happens when you get hundreds of people who are by definition linguiphiles and obsessive cataloguers: a discussion of how to remove odor turns into an argument about whether it's a laundromat if it has staff which degenerates into phrases like "There is no fundamental appeal to time here; a synchronic analysis works fine" and "Linguists are still heavily split over which is the correct usage of the word 'moot'" and random pictures of skinks. All in just fifty comments!

(Also, uh, it's not really good ettiquette to wank a discussion that you participated in, fyi.)