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1. Choose a topic guaranteed to mobilise a sizable portion of forum-readers.

Houseprices, for example, is always a fave. Or incomers. Or children. Or, let's say, breastfeeding.


2. Retire to a safe distance and play no part in the ensuing debate, chuckling as a load of people who essentially agree become more and more polarised as the ante is upped with each posting.


3. Put the kettle on. Job done!

Think I am regularly conned and taken in by this. Still, I can't stop myself when I see something prejudiced or misinformed.


That dog leads thing had to be a deliberately misleading one, didn't it? And some of the breast-feeding posts are a bit dubious. I would expect them in Bromley or Tunbridge Wells but not here... (oops, being prejudiced myself now)

Perhaps the Admin could fashion a new button (on the home page somewhere) to save 'stirrers' the tedium of having to register etc. If clicked, it would randomly generate some bit of inflammatory guff guaranteed to elicit a tonne of middle-class self-righteous indignation.


Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it all. Because I did.

i did some stirring on another infrequently visited forum the other day.


i just took an extreme verson of my own views, added some derisory comments and let the insults pour in. i came back with a few posts after but my heart wasn't really in it. i'm not a natural troll i guess.

People who deliberately go onto a forum to stir up trouble are usually control freaks who need to vent anger at a faceless enemy to feel better about themselves. People who come onto forums with genuine views and are ready to debate them are the butter of the bread to the forum.

*Bob* you know full well i do not fit the above criteria stiring things up on here. Firstly, the majority of my threads which I personally start, are about trivial things. I never start a thread with inflammatory intent.


In response to others I do take pleasure in mocking posts about so called 'yummies' because they do genuinely annoy me! (generalisation before you kick me in the never regions), but I never sit back and let a debate get out of hand without me being involved. ;-)

Hee hee.. just having a bit of a stir.


That said, I don't think you're being entirely honest with us (or yourself) here. 'Yummies' (whatever they are) irritate you. They are your very own 'faceless enemy' and you 'vent your anger' (ie "take pleasure in mocking posts" as you say above) right here on this forum.


ie.. stirring.

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