Question: The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic, the effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, a community website created by who, that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles, and other items from various website?

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Slashdot: Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.)  is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.  Stuff that Matters".  It features news stories on science and technology that are submitted and evaluated by site users.  Each story has a comments section attached to it where users can add online comments.  The website was founded in 1997 by Hope College students Rob Malda, also known as "CmdrTaco", and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as "Hemos".  In 2012, it was acquired by DHI Group, Inc. (i.e., Dice Holdings International, which created the Dice.com website for tech job seekers).  In January, 2016, BizX acquired Slashdot Media, including both slashdot.org and SourceForge.

Yahoo! Buzz: Yahoo! Buzz was a community-based news article website, heavily derived from Digg, that combined the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allowed editorial control.  Users could publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person's site that had a full story of the information, thereby driving traffic to that person's website and creating a larger market for sites that researched and published their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.

Cartoon Brew: Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and Jerry Beck.  Launched in 2004, the site has published news articles, commentaries and reviews regarding the animation industry.  The "Comics Beat" called it the "essential cartoon blog", while animator Francis Glebas cited it as "the place to go for the latest in animation news".  Beck departed from the site in February 2013.

Newsvine: Newsvine is a community-powered, collaborative journalism news website which draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources such as The Associated Press.  Users can write articles, "seed" links to external content, and discuss news items in an online forum.  These news items are submitted by both users and professional journalists.  Newsvine, the company, is not a news bureau and exercises no editorial voice, but provides social news platform for the online community which has grown around it.  Members decide with their online actions what news articles stay on the site and what news is removed.  Newsvine was named the "Top News Site of 2006" and one of the "50 Best Websites of 2007" by "Time" magazine.

AZFinText: Arizona Financial Text System (AZFinText) is a quantitative textual financial prediction system written by Robert P. Schumaker of University of Texas at Tyler and Hsinchun Chen of the University of Arizona.  This system differs from other quants because it uses financial text as one of its key means of predicting stock price movement.  This reduces the information lag-time problem evident in many similar systems where new information must be transcribed (e.g., such as losing a costly court battle or having a product recall), before the quant can react appropriately.  AZFinText overcomes these limitations by utilizing the terms used in financial news articles to predict future stock prices twenty minutes after the news article has been released.  It is believed that certain article terms can move stocks more than others.  Terms such as "factory exploded" or "workers strike" will have a depressing effect on stock prices whereas terms such as "earnings rose" will tend to increase stock prices.  When a human trading expert sees certain terms, they will react in a somewhat predictable fashion.  AZFinText capitalizes on the arbitrage opportunities that exist when investment experts over and under-react to certain news stories.  By analyzing breaking financial news articles and focusing on specific parts of speech, portfolio selection, term weighting and even article sentiment, the AZFinText system becomes a powerful tool and is a radically different way of looking at stock market prediction.

Social media optimization: Social media optimization (SMO) is the use of a number of outlets and communities to generate publicity to increase the awareness of a product, service brand or event.  Types of social media involved include RSS feeds, social news and bookmarking sites, as well as social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, video sharing websites and blogging sites.  SMO is similar to search engine optimization, in that the goal is to generate web traffic and to a site and increase awareness for a website.  In general, social media optimization refers to optimizing a website and its content to encourage more users to use and share links to the website across social media and networking sites.  SMO also refers to software tools that automate this process, or to website experts who undertake this process for clients.

Smart.fm: Smart.fm (formerly "iKnow!")  was a social learning- and community website created by Cerego Japan, Inc. The website used spaced repetition algorithms (SRS) to assist users in committing facts to long term memory and increasing learning speed.  Users could create, manage and share lists of facts to memorize; as well as learn a number of languages.  Progress could be monitored with tests.  The data was used to automatically plan a curriculum and learning strategy for the users.

Fark: Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites.  The site receives many story submissions per day and approximately 100 of them are publicly displayed on the site, spread out over the main page and tabs (Entertainment, Sports, Geek, Politics and Business).

Slashdot effect: The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic.  This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily become unavailable.  The name stems from the huge influx of web traffic which would result from the technology news site "Slashdot" linking to websites.  The name, however, is somewhat dated, as flash crowds from "Slashdot" were reported to be diminishing as of 2005 due to competition from similar sites.  The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, Digg, "Drudge Report", Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter, leading to terms such as being "farked" or "drudged", being under the "Reddit effect"—or receiving a "hug of death" from the site in question.  Google Doodles, which link to search results on the doodle topic, also result in high increases of traffic from the search results page.  Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – common causes are lack of sufficient data bandwidth, servers that fail to cope with the high number of requests, and traffic quotas. Sites that are maintained on shared hosting services often fail when confronted with the Slashdot effect.

Social news website: A social news website is an Internet website that features user-posted stories.  Such stories are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators.  Users typically comment online on the news posts and these comments may also be ranked in popularity.  Since their emergence with the birth of Web 2.0, social news sites have been used to link many types of information, including news, humor, support, and discussion.  All such websites allow the users to submit content and each site differs in how the content is moderated.  On the Slashdot and Fark websites, administrators decide which articles are selected for the front page.  On Reddit and Digg, the articles that get the most votes from the community of users will make it to the front page.  Many social news websites also feature an online comment system, where users discuss the issues raised in an article.  Some of these sites have also applied their voting system to the comments, so that the most popular comments are displayed first.  Some social news websites also have a social networking function, in that users can set up a user profile and follow other users' online activity on the website.

Supporting paragraphs: Slashdot effect Fark
Answer: Drew Curtis