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Slashdot effect

(ˈslæʃˌdɒt)
n
(Computer Science) computing a temporary surge in the numbers visiting a website and consequent service slowdown or even server crash that sometimes arises as a result of a new link being set up from a more popular website
[C21: from the symbols slash + dot, which are conventions of website addresses]
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While clicking on the share icon allows users to share a link to the article by email, Facebook, or Twitter, users can also initiate and respond to comments on the article, either digg or bury each comment, and sort comments by oldest, newest, most controversial, and most dugg. Clicking on the username of the user who submitted the article leads to that user's profile, which features statistics such as number of diggs, submissions, and comments--their network gatekeeping scorecard.
Among them are that Dugg's owners, Christopher and Lisa O'Connor, of 19 Knowlton Ave., must maintain the existing fence around their property with improvements that they testified to at the latest hearing.
Friends of Christopher and Lisa O'Connor, Dugg's owners, testified at the trial.
Once enough people have Dugg the article, it goes to the front page, where 2.5 million daily viewers see it.
CHELTENHAM: Book; Dugg, Banks, Brough (Howarth, 58), Howells, Griffin, McAuley, Walker (White, 90), Yates (Grayson, 70), Alsop, Devaney.
Ci reew yi nu njekka tudd, ay nit yu mace ci aar bi nooy fell, nuy faral di teral ay jetaay yu mag yu ay reewi-reew di teewe naari at yu nekk (biyenaal), bokk ci lwy yombal seenub dugg ci marseb aar yi: boole ci nu indiwaale seen wall ci yokkute ak tasoareb aari Afrig.
le l vel we have left a be b hind us so we SC S ORERS -CL McGrath (2-0), N Art McInerney (1-0), A Cu Collins (0-2), P O'Co Go G lden (0-1), P Dugg ANTRIM: Mc M Cann ((0 (-1), (0 (-ANTRIM: M Devlin (0-2, 1f), J Black (0-1), C McCann (0-1), K McKiernan (0-1), C Laverty (0-1), E McAlonan (0-1), D McKinley (0-1).
WESTBORO - A bench trial for Dugg the pit bull, sentenced to die after he attacked and killed a miniature poodle in September, got under way yesterday in Westboro District Court.
Lawyer Steven Wise, the Alan Dershowitz for dogs, doesn't believe that Dugg should die due to a single isolated incident in which he fatally mauled a leashed poodle while biting off part of its frantic owner's finger.
Miller, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said the board had been under the impression that 3-year-old Dugg was being kept at a Milton animal shelter pending the completion of various legal appeals.