wessexmario
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2014
- Messages
- 1,095
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- North Wiltshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
1. Pick a topic and ask a question or make a statement about it.
Don't mention all the facts, otherwise the people replying will have nothing to ask questions or make assumptions about.
2. The first person to reply should be someone who's read a book about beekeeing, preferably one of the historical editions that explains traditional methods in prescriptive detail.
3. The second person to reply should be someone with many years of experience, who has never lost more than one or two colonies each winter.
Their answer should contradict the first reply, as it's good to offer alternate ways of doing anything.
4. At this point some humour should be posted.
It's not advisable to annotate it with an icon, otherwise you'll be giving away the fact that you intended it not to be taken too literally.
5. Someone should then object to one of the previous posts as a personal attack.
No matter that the comment may have been purely factual with no reference to anyone in particular, or was a subtle attack directed at someone else, you just happened to post between the first post and the retort, both of which had nothing to do with you, and you firmly believe that attack is the best form of defence.
6. Posts should then be made to attempt to bring the thread back on topic, but with 83 posts discussing the finer points of trolling and just 8 on the original subject matter, it's difficult to know what the main topic of the thread is.
7. Anyone who's bored with the way the thread is going should take the opportunity to add some information about their personal favourite topic, regardless of whether it's relevant to the original post.
8. All threads should mention matchsticks or queen replacement.
If neither can be justified than a new beekeeping method regarding the topic should be suggested that has neither been completely thought through nor tested in reality.
After all, aren't forums ideal places for brainstorming new ideas?
9. People with low literary skills are given the opportunity to post by using icons such as
, 
or 
These icons give the impression of being knowledgeable without having to think or type anything.
It also has the beneficial side effect of increasing the person's post count, so propelling them to the exalted forum status of King Bee.
10. Beginners read the first page of a thread and follow it's advice, failing to notice that post 159 on page 7 of 9 corrects all the traditional assumptions made in posts 2 to 25 before the bunfight started.
A month later they return confused to the thread and ask why what they did didn't work.
11. continue at (2).
Don't mention all the facts, otherwise the people replying will have nothing to ask questions or make assumptions about.
2. The first person to reply should be someone who's read a book about beekeeing, preferably one of the historical editions that explains traditional methods in prescriptive detail.
3. The second person to reply should be someone with many years of experience, who has never lost more than one or two colonies each winter.
Their answer should contradict the first reply, as it's good to offer alternate ways of doing anything.
4. At this point some humour should be posted.
It's not advisable to annotate it with an icon, otherwise you'll be giving away the fact that you intended it not to be taken too literally.
5. Someone should then object to one of the previous posts as a personal attack.
No matter that the comment may have been purely factual with no reference to anyone in particular, or was a subtle attack directed at someone else, you just happened to post between the first post and the retort, both of which had nothing to do with you, and you firmly believe that attack is the best form of defence.
6. Posts should then be made to attempt to bring the thread back on topic, but with 83 posts discussing the finer points of trolling and just 8 on the original subject matter, it's difficult to know what the main topic of the thread is.
7. Anyone who's bored with the way the thread is going should take the opportunity to add some information about their personal favourite topic, regardless of whether it's relevant to the original post.
8. All threads should mention matchsticks or queen replacement.
If neither can be justified than a new beekeeping method regarding the topic should be suggested that has neither been completely thought through nor tested in reality.
After all, aren't forums ideal places for brainstorming new ideas?
9. People with low literary skills are given the opportunity to post by using icons such as
, or These icons give the impression of being knowledgeable without having to think or type anything.
It also has the beneficial side effect of increasing the person's post count, so propelling them to the exalted forum status of King Bee.
10. Beginners read the first page of a thread and follow it's advice, failing to notice that post 159 on page 7 of 9 corrects all the traditional assumptions made in posts 2 to 25 before the bunfight started.
A month later they return confused to the thread and ask why what they did didn't work.
11. continue at (2).
