Other Sources of the "Slashdot Effect"? 77
mattsucks asks: "I was surfing Google News today, looking for something interesting. I had just loaded the page, and hit refresh. A new story popped up at the top of the news page, so I chased the link. 'Server Too Busy, Try Again Later' replied the kind webserver. Obviously a Google News-driven Slashdotting was in effect (pun intended). Another example: one of our local talk-radio DJs likes to have his listeners pound the web sites of anyone he is peeved at. He's the #1 DJ in his slot, so when he says 'click' he generates a LOT of traffic. What other causes have people found of the Slashdot Effect?"
Would you believe spam? (Score:3, Interesting)
memepool (Score:4, Informative)
Are you serious? (Score:3, Insightful)
Limbaugh
Fark
MSNBC
Slate
CNN
Natura
National disasters
etc.
It seems like you're just coming up with questions for the sake of asking a question. That's the epitome of boring. Responding to such a question is only marginally less boring.
Re:Are you serious? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are you serious? (Score:2)
Scripting News [scripting.com]
K5 [kuro5hin.org]
What was the point of this again? For everyone to list their favorite sites? (Note, the list above is not my favorite sites, just some large ones that can cause
Re:Are you serious? (Score:2)
Fark (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Fark (Score:2)
Let me guess (Score:1)
and then you submit the website you hate to these site....
A MASSIVE DDOS!
Re:Let me guess (Score:1)
Re:Let me guess (Score:1)
Re:Let me guess (Score:2)
foreign language sites (Score:3, Interesting)
About once a month or so, my daily hitrate goes up from around 10,000 per day to around 100,000*, as some foreign site discovers the site.
It's only ever foreign sites, too - no English-language sites seem to generate that amount of hits. I suppose I have no way of knowing if I'm the butt of a thousand jokes on the sites that link me.
Anyway, my point is that if you're looking for sources of the slashdot effect, don't forget to include foreign sites, as it's likely that foreign countries could conceivably have 'national portals', or whatever.
* I presume this fits within the bounds of the
Re:foreign language sites (Score:4, Funny)
SPAM - MOD PARENT DOWN (Score:1)
It's an emerging problem. (Score:3, Insightful)
I've been infuriated several times being unable to find a link to a site that they were talking about. I originally thought that perhaps it was because they were afraid they would loose page views if their readers discover those other sites.
Now I'm not so sure. After seeing the number of sites that Slashdot destroys on a daily basis, someone much bigger (cnn.com, etc) could do much more damage than Slashdot ever could if they linked from a high-profile story to a small site.
This poses an interesting problem. As people clump around the large popular sites, links between some sites will become one-way. That is, the smaller can link to the bigger, but not vice-versa. The web is no longer equal. At what point does this become a form of self-censorship with knowledge hosted on smaller sites unaccessable to the masses?
Re:It's an emerging problem. (Score:2)
Go calculate [webcalc.net] something
Re:It's an emerging problem. (Score:1)
It basically comes down to the fact that no one can have you arrested/sued/whatever for mentioning their company unless it was in a way that misrepresents them.
Re:It's an emerging problem. (Score:2)
We got similar resul
Re:It's an emerging problem. (Score:1)
Re:I believe Oprah (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I believe Oprah (Score:1)
Penny-Arcade (Score:1)
They call this "Wanging" (Score:1)
What Pun? (Score:2)
Re:What Pun? (Score:2)
Slashdot effect offline (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot effect offline (Score:1)
Re:Slashdot effect offline (Score:2)
Living in london, the trendies do really annoy me. Screaming into their ridiculously overpowered mobile phones while knocking pedestrians aside in there Mercedes.
Good Advertising (Score:2)
If you want to compare this to slashdot, I guess we could call a good slashdotting a "successful" advertising campaign. No... we didn't nuke your server, we just advertised it reallllly well.
Re:Good Advertising (Score:1)
I don't know if Delia gets anything back for promoting these products, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens from time to time - although she is on the BBC, and I'm not entirely sure how their rules about interaction with commercial entities would apply for that.
SA (Score:5, Informative)
SA has the added trick of mentioning if the page has a guestbook. All sorts of fun things to do with guestbooks, from ASCII-art renderings of goatse to, well, ASCII-art renderings of tubgirl.
Windows Update (Score:1)
kungfoo (Score:1)
Unintentional DDOS (Score:1)
That's easy... (Score:1)
By the way...what is all this talk about Spam?
Other causes... (Score:2)
"Refresh already, dammit!"
One of the first (Score:3, Interesting)
I can't find a date, as his site has been changed to "The people in charge have requested this web site be removed. 2/6/2003 --ghg". Sad. It was really cool, with lots of pictures, movies, etc.
Anyway, I think it was like '92 or '94 or somewhere around there.
George Goble (Score:2)
It's a sad, sad day that ECN has requested Goble remove his web page. That guy is a Purdue institution.
Picture of him "lighting" a grill here: (Score:1)
I'm sure there are other people mirroring bits and pieces of the original videos here and there. Post 'em if you find 'em!
Re:One of the first (Score:2)
The Dark Side (Score:3, Funny)
Yoda: Pales it does to the Dark Side
Yoda: Fear is the path of the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Computer Geek: But the slashdot effect is cool!
Yoda: Zapht! [Yoda cuts Computer Geek in half with light saber.] Weak in the force was that one.
Sig: Hot girls [jdhodges.com] and girls with alcohol [jdhodges.com] on my homepage.
Overwhelmed servers (Score:3, Interesting)
Mr. Boss thought this was such a great site that he went out and made a $50 million advertising buy, nationally, starting at Thanksgiving. What he didn't do was tell the technical people.
The result was that everyone's mom left the Thanksgiving football games, logged on and tried to hit the server. Later measures suggested the server peaked at more than 1000 hits/sec. Needless to say, this served as a very effective smoke test, and sure enough the server smoked.
Old P.H. was most disturbed with the technical people, with Sun, and with the whole web thing -- he couldn't understand why he couldn't spend $10K on a web site and $50 million on advertising and get perfect performance.
Fan Sites (Score:1)
I am sure other "geeky" fan sites have the same effect.
Story from a MercuryInteractive Sales rep (Score:1)
The IT team at CBS had worked for months to get their website up for "Survivor", with behind the scenes footage, bios of all the contestants, etc all set to debut with the first episode. a couple of days before the premier, some bright sales guy at MI called a
Slashdot Effect? (Score:1)
As this changes and more keyboard challenge
Re:Slashdot Effect? (Score:1)
Re:Poseur!!! (Score:1)
Re:Poseur!!! (Score:1)
My family has been in Canada since 1796. I guess if I think in a stream of consciousness it is because of my obsession with thought. Something AOL Canada users spend little time doing. Most AOL Canada users, when confronted by an intellectual challenge drown the headache it causes
with copious pints of brewskies. This usually goes on until there is little intellectual thought left to trouble the mind. Yes I am Canadian, b
Howard Stern Show (Score:2)
Caused a brief problem, which the ISP solved by moving the site to a dedicated Pentium Freebsd Apache box on its own port on the switch. 4 point something million hits that day.
Wouldn't be much of a big deal, except that MS was running ads on TV boasting about their single server's ability to hand
Timekeeper (Score:2)
viri (Score:2, Insightful)