slashdot en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Etymology
After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.
Meanings
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(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.
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.
2006, Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT: 2002 - 2005, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99:Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.
2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 396:Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.
2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, New York: Ace Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 19 May 2008; republished London: Orbit Books, 2005, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| slashdotted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| slashdotted | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| slashdotting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| slashdots | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Relateds
DDOS · slashdotting · go viral · Slashdot effect