Slashdot Mirror
Other Sources of the "Slashdot Effect"?
mattsucks asks: "I was surfing Google News today, looking for something interesting. I had just loaded the page, and hit refresh. A new story popped up at the top of the news page, so I chased the link. 'Server Too Busy, Try Again Later' replied the kind webserver. Obviously a Google News-driven Slashdotting was in effect (pun intended). Another example: one of our local talk-radio DJs likes to have his listeners pound the web sites of anyone he is peeved at. He's the #1 DJ in his slot, so when he says 'click' he generates a LOT of traffic. What other causes have people found of the Slashdot Effect?"
Since you posted the link, I guess it's that time of the month again?
Damn. Where is the '-1:Boring' moderation when you need it!!!!
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Computer Geek: The Slashdot Effect is the sudden, relatively temporary surge in traffic to a Web site that occurs when a high-traffic Web site or other source posts a story that refers visitors to another Web site.
Yoda: Pales it does to the Dark Side
Yoda: Fear is the path of the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Computer Geek: But the slashdot effect is cool!
Yoda: Zapht! [Yoda cuts Computer Geek in half with light saber.] Weak in the force was that one.
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Heh, I worked at bookstore when Oprah started her book club. I didn't really enjoy being yelled at by lots of middle aged women who were peeved that we sold our single copy of "The Deep End of the Ocean" to someone else already. ("What do you mean you're out? It was on TV!")I was firmly convinced that if Oprah recommended the Chilton's 1985 Volvo repair guide that thousands of mindless Oprah watchers would have bought that too.