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One of the older geek hangouts on the World Wide Web; a notable and wretched hive of scum and villainy. The denizens of Slashdot are known to engage, with regards to their self-professed knowledge of All-Things-Technical, in the same kind of macho douchebaggery that highschool jocks wield against their brainy counterparts. In this way they are quite adept at demonstrating their own propensities for egotism and vanity.
I made the mistake of reading the forums on slashdot today.
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A large news discussion site for geeks.
slashdot.org
Did you see that article on slashdot yesterday?
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The action of screaming SLASHDOT! when you do not agree with another person's opinion.
Teacher: "And that is why Adolf Hitler was a bad man"
Class: "SLASHDOT SLASHDOT SLASHDOT SLASHDOT!"
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When a website experiences a surge in user traffic to the point of grinding to a halt. Often this results in web masters having to foot huge bills if they pay by bandwidth.
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1. An immediate surge in hit rate on a webserver caused by an announcement on a high-traffic website; a Nivenesque "flash crowd".
2. An unintentional denial of service to a website as a result of a surge in hit rate following an announcement on a high-traffic website.
See also: slashdotted
Bill Joy's _Dangers of Lego Blocks_ site succumbed to the slashdot effect scant hours after going live.
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A.K.A. Slashdotting, Slashdotted, etc.
Refers to the effect a Slashdot post has on a website. Because of slashdot's gigantic audience, any link placed there quickly goes down; very few sites can handle such huge traffic coming to their site.
Though the slashdot effect is similar to a denial of service, most webmasters don't mind the huge publicity and traffic to their site.
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Exactly the same as the slashdot effect but much more fun to say. To be slashdot slapped is when your website is listen on slash dot causing a huge spike in traffic.
Many of these sites can not handle the extra thousands of hits and go down, that is being slash dot slapped.
"O man, I totally got slashdot slapped, I shouldn't have posted those pictures of the new Xbox 720."
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