The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic, the effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, a community website created by who, that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles, and other items from various website?
Slashdot effect:  The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, Digg, "Drudge Report", Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter, leading to terms such as being "farked" or "drudged", being under the "Reddit effect"—or receiving a "hug of death" from the site in question.
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