slashdot effect: n. 1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said
to have happened when a website being virtually unreachable because
too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an
interesting article on the popular Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/)
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.
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