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  • verb Present participle of slashdot.

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Examples

  • Whether Google can detect clusters of frequent accesses such as from "slashdotting" is entirely under question, since most slashdot users may not have google toolbar with pagerank on, but for the * few* users that do, the site will just appear slow in general.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Not only can the caching be tuned in real time, while your site is under load, but it has been successfully tested under a "slashdotting" and performed extremely well.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2009

  • First, although he explains the origin of many words unfamiliar to the nonspecialized reader, such as Wiki, mud, and gnu, he uses slashdotting without providing the origin of this term, which refers to sudden influxes of new Web-site visitors.

    Letters to the Editor 2006

  • Maybe 1and1 are able to handle a slashdotting. that is, Dana, being linked to from Slashdot.org, where the traffic kills mere mortal servers.

    Oh Goody! « Whatever 2008

  • Scalzi.com has 3TB of bandwidth a month, and I have WP caching high-traffic pages here at Whatever, so we stand a reasonable chance of holding up to a slashdotting.

    Oh Goody! « Whatever 2008

  • First, although he explains the origin of many words unfamiliar to the nonspecialized reader, such as Wiki, mud, and gnu, he uses slashdotting without providing the origin of this term, which refers to sudden influxes of new Web-site visitors.

    Letters to the Editor 2006

  • Remember that there are plenty of things out there that can break things e.g. phishing, slashdotting, etc. - these will evolve as the web develops.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Phil Whitehouse 2007

  • This case in particular has demonstrated something rather interesting – “inverse slashdotting”.

    Build a torrent in seconds 2005

  • Remember that there are plenty of things out there that can break things e.g. phishing, slashdotting, etc. - these will evolve as the web develops.

    Dude, he invented the friggin' world wide web. Have you heard of it? Phil Whitehouse 2007

  • What will happen with the first slashdotting of a Second Life business?

    Second Life 2006

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