Same, seems to have been used ~644 times (including at least one use of “Reddit (or HN) ‘Hug of Death’”) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (compared to 433 times “slashdotted” has been used here https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Edit: The number seems to change with the sort criteria (popularity/date). Weird.

10 years ago I scraped a representative slice of all /. postings from the fall of every year. It was apparent that the rate of new UIDs was falling and that the bulk of the posting was done by a limited and shrinking cohort in the range of 100K to 400K. Mobile boosted the prevalence of AC posts but that didn't compensate for the drop off. I ran a regression out and predicted they'd be dead by 2023. Looks like they're on track.

Not being able to up/downvote comments was a major turn off. They'd throw whooping 5 voting credits in your direction every few weeks, but that only served to antagonize people even more. They tried to fix that by giving away meta-mod rights (to let you decide if other people's up/downvoting were fair), but again that wasn't what was needed. So as soon as HN had enough momentum and started to become a viable alternative people left in droves. It was a true exodus. Not really sure who stayed there...

I think the best part about Slashdot in its best days were the people. You could be reading and article about Python and it was possible to see Guido in the comments. And while that was rare, the other upvoted comments were usually high quality from really knowledgable people and the noise was held down pretty well. As the good commentors left, all that was left is the noise. If you go now and look at comments often everything is downvoted excepted for a small number of o.k. comments. But most of the experts and really knowledgable people are gone.

HN seems to have filled some of the gap it left but I don't know of any other site since that has the same volume of really high quality content. I see some comments here blaming the inability for everyone to do metamoderation - but I'd say it was the opposite. When they had decent editors things were great. Your content will be as good as your moderators and I think reddit proves that simply having more of them doesn't assure better content.

After several management shakeups, the editors went off onto some weird tangents with video segments, allowing off-topic posts, and paid content masquerading as stories.

That's when I quit. Why did you stop?