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Re:Why HN Got Slow by samstave on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @07:58PM (#2866058)
Slashdotted Digged Reddited

Pick one

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Re:Why HN Got Slow by yuvipanda on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @08:03PM (#2866071)
They aren't considered MSM.

NYT, Slate, Guardian, etc., rather.

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Re:Why HN Got Slow by samstave on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @08:30PM (#2866154)
It was a historical reference
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Re:Why HN Got Slow by icefox on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @09:33PM (#2866320)
2nded, I haven't heard 'Slashdotted' to mean getting traffic from slashdot.org in a while, but it does seem to have stuck as the means of saying we got a ton of traffic from some other website linking to us.
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Re:Why HN Got Slow by watmough on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @08:31PM (#2866161)
Your point is pretty reasonable, considering the meme sprang to popular awareness in it's 'Slashdotted' form, doubtless melting many servers down prior to appearing in the MSM.
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