[nickbarone]

Seems to me that what you need more than the standards are the reasons behind the standards - because yeah, the person coding that particular problem knows more than you about that problem, and should /teach you what they know/, particularly when it's easy.

[Negitivefrags]

That doesn't work at all when it's religion.

Using spaces for indentation is a sin against humanity, but that doesn't mean that someone else isn't going to come along and believe otherwise and no argument you make will sway them.

[nickbarone]

Well, but then your problem is religion, not coding standards. And then it'll be over this or that design pattern, coding paradigm, version control commit logs....

If you name the problem "coding standards" and it's "religion", you'll solve the wrong problem and of course it won't work.