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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {DoS attack}{flash crowd}]