Irony meter

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The irony meter is a device used to detect irony, hypocrisy, and bovine scatology in a discussion. They are quite often used online, and are notorious for poor build quality, as they are constantly breaking -- or even exploding.

Well!

The RationalWiki Irony Meter v. 3.0 is now available to the intrepid DIYer. (And soon, at your local Best Buy! We'll give you a run for your garage rent, Mssr. Jobs!)

It features a double-log scale to allow measurement of even the most egregious levels of conventional meter-busting irony, special protection circuits, and pre-processing protection against overloads. Yet, it can still clearly register over an amazing level of the simpler 1-10 irony points encountered on silly blogs, to the 10-1000 level encountered at intelligent design screeds - and yet still accurately report, and not break, at the 10,000 - 1,000,000 level when some people claim to be against censorship.

It is specially designed not to overload, and for its own protection, it will shut down at 1,500,000. After removing the self-calibrating scatological nullifier, this detector has obtained scores of 3,808,267 by one of our users before being shut down due to fear of imminent explosion.

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[edit] Schematics

Also available are ready modifications to most commercially available, but rather compromised, irony meters.

[edit] Rebuilding a second-hand e-meter for the purpose

Preliminary setup for calibrating an RW IM 3.14
  1. Obtain a medium-size sledgehammer. Break everything on the e-meter except the dial thingie.
  2. Using the specifications on the back of the dial thingie, and the schematics provided, build the appropriately buffered and voltage-controlled circuitry.
  3. Attach circuitry to dial thingie.
  4. Perform "smoke test".
  5. Test the combined equipment, using a small 0.2 A fuse, on lightweight fare, such a typical Colbert Report.
  6. Install the 5 A fuse and start to enjoy the internet with a fully functional, and cheaply-obtained, irony meter.

[edit] Measurable quantities

A sample schematic for a typical irony meter

The irony meter can measure all of these quantities:

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