digg effect

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.

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.

digg effect by nphp July 26, 2006

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Digg effect

A term used to describe a Denial of Service caused by a story being featured on the front page of the popular user driven news site Digg.

Woah, only Dugg only 50 times and the page is already down. The Digg effect at work!

Digg effect by Ninja337 August 21, 2006

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digg effect

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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digg effect by Graham T C June 16, 2006

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digg effect

Refers to the effect a Digg article has on the computer hardware of casual techies.

Casual techie: I just read on Digg how to run Linux from my computer's BIOS and am about to run it for the first time.

Techie: You fool. You have fallen victim to the Digg effect. I'll let Dell know your computer is on its way.

digg effect by themanderson September 5, 2008

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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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the digg effect by Graham T C June 15, 2006

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The Digg Effect

The results of having your article, video, song or photos make the front page of the social news website, Digg.com. This often results in a server crash although many bloggers see this as a trophy.

"We just got hit by the Digg effect...15,000 hits before our server crashed!".

"My article 'Man gets eaten by man hungry penguin' got the Digg effect...over 35,000 page views in 2 hours!".

The Digg Effect by DigitalPenguin September 20, 2009

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Striver

The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.

Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh

Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009

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