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