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After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.

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slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)

1. (computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
   • 2006, Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT: 2002 - 2005‎^[1], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99:

     And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.

   • 2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security‎^[2], O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 396:

     Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.

   • 2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando‎^[3], New York: Ace Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 19 May 2008; republished London: Orbit Books, 2005, →ISBN:

     Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.

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• Slashdot effect
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• sh*tloads

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