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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>slashdot effect</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="slash.html" title="slash"/><link rel="next" href="sleep.html" title="sleep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">slashdot effect</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sleep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="slashdot-effect"/><dt xmlns="" id="slashdot-effect"><b>slashdot effect</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Also spelled “<span class="quote">/. effect</span>”; what is said to have
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happened when a website becoming virtually unreachable because too many
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people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting
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article on the popular <a href="http://slashdot.org/" target="_top">Slashdot</a>
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news service. The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including
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variants like “<span class="quote">That site has been slashdotted again!</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In a perhaps inevitable generation, the term is being used to
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describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site. This
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would better be described as a <a href="../F/flash-crowd.html"><i class="glossterm">flash crowd</i></a>. Differs
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from a <a href="../D/DoS-attack.html"><i class="glossterm">DoS attack</i></a> in being unintentional.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sleep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">slash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sleep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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