The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily close. The name stems from the huge influx of web traffic that results from the technology news site Slashdot linking to websites. The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, Drudge Report, Twitter and Digg, leading to terms such as being Farked or Drudged and the Digg effect or Dugg. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable ? common causes are lack of sufficient data bandwidth, servers that fail to cope with the high number of requests, and traffic quotas. Sites that are maintained on shared hosting services often fail when confronted with the Slashdot effect.
Links from other popular websites can cause problems comparable to this effect ? see traffic overload.
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Oh i just never seen it written as /.
Yeah but we actually get a lot more traffic from digg, reddit and other social media than we do TNSFW.... the traffic we are getting from TNSFW is just kind of a fluke.
look the # of views on the Real Girls thread for evidence of that.
EDIT -- and TNSFW ranking is not much higher than ours
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