Verb
slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)
(computing, Internet, dated) To render a web site slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
A popular meme (based on an unscientific Slashdot user poll citation ) is, "In Soviet Russia, noun verb you!" Source: Internet
For instance, a user reading Slashdot at level +5 will only see the highest rated comments, while a user reading at level −1 will see a more "unfiltered, anarchic version". Source: Internet
BTW Brian Slashdot also picked up on this story of yours, your lil expose is starting to rattle the web… or the criminal undergorund. Source: Internet
Five years later, I still read Slashdot every day but only check K5 out every couple of months out of morbid curiosity. Source: Internet
Slashdot recently turned 20 years old, Rob commemorated this in a great Medium post, and so I reached out to him to tell us the story of one of the first great social media websites. Source: Internet
A. This is, of course, how Slashdot works, and I’ll bet you 50% of the people who read Slashdot regularly have never figured it out. Source: Internet