the result of an online story hitting the frontpage of digg
it creates a massive swarm of traffic to the website that was "dugg", causing the servers that the website is hosted on to become extremely slow and laggy
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Person One: dude, my website just got to the front page of digg!
Person Two: soon, you'll be suffering from the digg effect
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A local news magazine for the city of Glasgow in Scotland. It's known for reporting what most other newspapers don't and also for naming and shaming local criminals of the Glasgow area.