Ruby /.'ted

[Dan Tapp]

Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best
Scripting Language."

- dan

 

[gabriele renzi]

Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best
Scripting Language."

and we are down for maintenance
Hope the other community site could resist

 

[Josef 'Jupp' Schugt]

Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the
Best Scripting Language."

Up to now I thought that 'has been slashdotted' means 'site is down
due to severe overload resulting from being listed on slashdot' :->

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

 

[Ian Macdonald]

Up to now I thought that 'has been slashdotted' means 'site is down
due to severe overload resulting from being listed on slashdot' :->

That _is_ what it means. The connotation of 'posted about to Slashdot'
is much more recent.

Ian
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[Michael Campbell]

Not to be a pedant, but it means whatever the population wants it to
mean. But I'll agree, the popular meaning has gradually shifted from
"crashed due to big /. traffic" to "will almost certainly crash, it's
been listed on /." to just, "it's been listed on /.".

 

[James Britt]

Not to be a pedant, but it means whatever the population wants it to
mean. But I'll agree, the popular meaning has gradually shifted from
"crashed due to big /. traffic" to "will almost certainly crash, it's
been listed on /." to just, "it's been listed on /.".

Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything
other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."

(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think
"begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")


James

 

[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

I've found it interesting that other sites (Fark, BoingBoing, etc.)
with large and loyal readership have now started verbing their own
names as a term for the same phenomenon as the original meaning of
/.'ed (which is the only sense in which I use it).

Perhaps some of the semantic shift is just due to the fact that more
and more servers seem to be able to stand up to that kind of traffic,
making the Slashdot-effect less automatic.

Lennon

 

[Dan Tapp]

Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything
other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."

I appreciate the correction on the use of the term. I haven't been a
big fan /., and just happened by the site in an idle moment. Having
heard the term no more than a handful of times, I obviously misused it.

(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think
"begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")

Or maybe not ;-)

James

- dan

 

[Tyler Zesiger]

I think of the "slashdot-EFFECT" as being a server-trashing, and being
"slashdotted" as getting a mention in slashdot.

 

[Gavin Sinclair]

Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything
other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."

(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think
"begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")

Or those who think "loose" is the opposite of "find"?

Gavin

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

I think the change probably makes sense- I think most sites now handle
being "slashdotted" without imploding. My buddy's company got a huge
spike after being reviewed on slashdot, and his basic server in his
basement handled it with aplomb (IIS running VB and VBScripts no less).
And they had no expectation of that traffic or being reviewed.