troll-o-meter

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troll-o-meter - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Troll-O-Meter
   n.
  
     Common Usenet jargon for a notional instrument used to measure the
     provocation level of a Usenet troll. "Come on, everyone! If the
     above doesn't set off the Troll-O-Meter, we're going to have to get
     him to run around with a big blinking sign saying `I am a troll, I'm
     only in it for the controversy and flames', and shooting random gobs
     of Jell-O(tm) at us before the point is proven." Mentions of the
     Troll-O-Meter are often accompanied by an ASCII picture of an arrow
     pointing at a numeric scale. Compare bogometer, Indent-o-Meter.