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slashdot effect
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n. 1. Also spelled /. effect ; what is said to have happened when a website
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becoming virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after
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the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot
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news service. The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including
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variants like That site has been slashdotted again! 2. In a perhaps
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inevitable generation, the term is being used to describe any similar effect
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from being listed on a popular site. This would better be described as a
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flash crowd. Differs from a DoS attack in being unintentional.
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