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Slashdot effect

The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting or the hug of death, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily become unavailable. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become…

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Terminology

Hacker NewsFarkDiggDrudge ReportImgur
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Extent

CommunityTrollingVandalismNewbieEternal September
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Cause

LinkingGoogle Doodles
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Assistance and prevention

MirrorCopyright
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Assistance and prevention

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Slashdot effect

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples44
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

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Slashdot effect

Top relations

related to Terminology · 12
Slashdot effect → Another, Digg, Drudge Report, Fark, Hacker News, Imgur, It, Larry Niven's, Reddit, Slashdot, The, Twitter
related to Extent · 9
Slashdot effect → Few, However, Major, Occasionally, Slashdot, The, These, Traffic, Websites
has prevention · 7
Slashdot effect → Many, Mirroring, Sites, Slashdot, Slashdot-linked, Slashdotted, There

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Important terminology

slashdot effect sites site traffic news website page even requests websites unavailable also servers many popular term flash article large

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Hacker Newsinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
Farkinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
Digginstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
Drudge Reportinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
Imgurinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
Redditinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
and Twitterinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
leading to terms such as being farked or drudgedinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
being under the Reddit effectinstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
or receiving a hug of death from the site in questioninstance ofIt was later extended to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site.The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs0.80text
Slashdotinstance ofCauseSites0.80text
Digginstance ofCauseSites0.80text

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