I've invented a new metric for you to ponder: The TeaTroll Index
It's roughly proportional to the amount of right-wing troll activity on the Internet, and I hypothesize that it is strongly correlated with the effectiveness of progressive events.
For example, I would estimate today's May 1st General Strike organized by the Occupy Movement as a pretty effective event. And I have also observed that the right-wing trolls have come out of cryo-freeze and started spamming their hateful idiocy all over the Internet today, especially in places that talk about Occupy or the general strike.
It's best to try to estimate the TeaTroll Index on sites that exercise little or no administrative control over trolls. DU has MIRT, which is pretty effective. So you want to go somewhere like Twitter, which allows the trolls to run freely. There were a lot of trolls on #occupy, #ows and other Occupy-related hashtags.
Let me throw in the caveat that other things like right-wing activity, may also cause spikes in the TeaTroll Index, so don't just assume that it's us progressives doing something right.
How high did you say the TeaTroll Index climbed today, on a scale of 1-100?
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| 0-10 - not much TeaTroll activity | |
0 (0%) |
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| 10-20 - limited amount | |
0 (0%) |
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| 20-30 - some activity | |
0 (0%) |
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| 30-40 - limited-to-moderate activity | |
0 (0%) |
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| 40-50 - moderate | |
0 (0%) |
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| 50-60 moderate-to-heavy | |
0 (0%) |
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| 60-70 heavy TeaTroll activity | |
1 (100%) |
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| 70-80 very heavy | |
0 (0%) |
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| 80-90 extremely heavy TeaTroll activity | |
0 (0%) |
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| 90-100 - Who made a hundred million clones of Andrew Breitbart? | |
0 (0%) |
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