Derived from slashdot effect, an insane increase in traffic after a link to a news article is promoted to the digg.com front page. This is sort of like an unintentional DDOS attack, but sometimes the increased traffic (and ad exposure) causes webmasters and bloggers to post links to their sites on digg.
The digg effect will usually not have much of an effect on larger websites but small websites may be shut down quickly due to the server not being able to cope with the high amount of requests or because all of their bandwidth is consumed.
The digg effect will usually not have much of an effect on larger websites but small websites may be shut down quickly due to the server not being able to cope with the high amount of requests or because all of their bandwidth is consumed.
I wanted ad clicks so I submitted my copied blog post to digg. It got promoted and my website was shut down due to the digg effect.
by nphp July 26, 2006
Get the digg effect mug.A game to be played on Digg.com, wherein the players try to post a comment that gets the most responses from grammar nazis. If the grammar nazis on Digg figure out that you are not serious, you are disqualified.
Digg game entrant No. 1:
~Yeah, your probaly going to move over their.
Digg grammar nazi responses:
~It should be probably, not probaly
~I hate it when people use "your" instead of "you're"
~EPIC APOSTROPHE FAIL
~use their moar
~Yeah, your probaly going to move over their.
Digg grammar nazi responses:
~It should be probably, not probaly
~I hate it when people use "your" instead of "you're"
~EPIC APOSTROPHE FAIL
~use their moar
by stevie-gee March 27, 2009
Get the Digg game mug.1: To submit a story on the popular social networking website, digg.com. The website is a way for users to share web content and news articles on the internet. In past tense, you say you "dugg it."
2: To really like something. The spelling is usually only with one g in this instance (dig, not digg).
2: To really like something. The spelling is usually only with one g in this instance (dig, not digg).
by maryjanie November 30, 2006
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by Ninja337 August 21, 2006
Get the Digg effect mug.A Conservative ideologue who tries to censor articles that might hurt their political views on Digg while promoting ones that promote their views. To a Digg Patriot everything is about partisan politics, regardless of the trends, and popularity of articles on Digg.
Originally a Digg Patriot gathered on a Yahoo Group called Digg Patriots to receive orders form other Digg Patriots on what articles to bury.
by Libertatis September 11, 2010
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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
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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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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by Graham T C June 16, 2006
Get the digg effect mug.When a website reaches Digg.com's front page and the server gets pwned by the large amount of incoming webtraffic. Images and videos worsen the Digg Rape effect due to their relatively higher bandwidth requirements versus plain text.
Usually one will notice the Digg Rape effect when trying to browse to a site linked through Digg.
Usually one will notice the Digg Rape effect when trying to browse to a site linked through Digg.
by SovereignGFC January 7, 2008
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