slashdot
Verb
Meaning
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.
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A popular meme (based on an unscientific Slashdot user poll citation ) is, "In Soviet Russia, noun verb you!"
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".
BTW Brian Slashdot also picked up on this story of yours, your lil expose is starting to rattle the web… or the criminal undergorund.
Five years later, I still read Slashdot every day but only check K5 out every couple of months out of morbid curiosity.
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.
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.