The Socratic method is basically asking questions till your opponent reaches a contradiction in their reasoning; their position should be able to give consistent answers to related questions. This can be done to give evidence to relativism and post-modernism; their not mutually exclusive.

A lot of people don't have the patience for a series of questions. Other opinions are basically alternative answers to some of the same questions they answered. The Socratic method becomes implicit instead of explicit. Its less structured, but its existent. People hold on to their beliefs because they base their identity on their views, an attack on their views is an attack on them; That is why a lot of people are not very good at debate. Occasionally you have two people arguing and neither want to reevaluate their position, but the existent of the other position is a challenge so you end up with a screaming match; eventually they will ignore each other if they don't kill each other. When such a person encounters someone willing to reevaluate their position, they can do nothing but lose(mentally). those people are known as trolls here. Willingness to evaluate is a continuum and changes based on the issue.

Socratic Method is not entirely dead. Of course in sites like this there are always riots of people who do not want to stimulate critical thinking. Even in day to day life we always find blind-minded people who just don´t care for the truth or to understand things. Most human beings want an easy life without have the need to think. The good thing is that we can still find persons who use this method. I know a few but they really are a minority. But we still breath.