I imagine he doesn&#x27;t get called a gadfly for nothing. The only Platonic dialogue I can stand is The Symposium because Socrates&#x27; method of interrogation is elsewhere too annoying†. Maybe instead of &quot;don&#x27;t feed the trolls&quot; we should say &quot;don&#x27;t feed the gadflies&quot;.<p>† Having said that, I recently got out of the library Heyting&#x27;s _Intuitionism: An Introduction_ and it&#x27;s in fictional dialogue format initially which irritated me no end. (So maybe it&#x27;s not Socrates but the form!) I guess I don&#x27;t appreciate it as a teaching method but I can see why it is used especially if otherwise there would be a lot of back-and-forth question-response type segments in the text. <i>Not a fan</i> :)