Around here I belong to two quilt groups and both say "we have no quilt police here".
Can't say I've ever heard any of the two groups ever debate about what should be or not regarding wash or not wash...about fabrics....etc.
But than again I've only been in one over a year and the other one 9 months so perhaps haven't gotten to know them well enough yet.
As for "quilt police" I tell them around here that I live to annoy the quilt police. LOL