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third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted
(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site. quotations examples
If these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted).
2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools
And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.
, 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.
2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security
Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.
2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando