dogpile v.
[Usenet: prob. fr. mainstream "puppy pile"]
When many people post unfriendly responses in short order to a
single posting, they are sometimes said to "dogpile" or "dogpile
on" the person to whom they're responding. For example, when a
religious missionary posts a simplistic appeal to alt.atheism,
he can expect to be dogpiled. It has been suggested that this
derives from U.S, football slang for a tackle involving three or
more people.
[Usenet: prob. fr. mainstream "puppy pile"]
When many people post unfriendly responses in short order to a
single posting, they are sometimes said to "dogpile" or "dogpile
on" the person to whom they're responding. For example, when a
religious missionary posts a simplistic appeal to alt.atheism,
he can expect to be dogpiled. It has been suggested that this
derives from U.S, football slang for a tackle involving three or
more people.
Related:
- dogpile: [USENET: prob. fr. mainstream "puppy pile"] v.
When many people post unfriendly responses in short... - cross-post: [USENET] vi. To post a single article simultaneously to
several newsgroups.
Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly... - cross-post vi.
[Usenet; very common] To post a single
article simultaneously to several newsgroups.
Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly... - troll v.,n.
1. [From the Usenet group
alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet
designed to attract predictable responses or flames;
or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj.
[Columbia University: prob.
by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to... - talk mode n.
A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some
other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a
real-time on-line conversation.
It combines the immediacy of talking with all the... - tron v.
[NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie "Tron"] To
become inaccessible except via email or talk(1),
especially when one is normally available via telephone... - Ob- /ob/ pref.
Obligatory. A piece of netiquette
acknowledging that the author has been straying from the
newsgroup's charter topic.
For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response...
