dogpile

2 definitions found

dogpile - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  dogpile
  
     (Usenet, probably from 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.
  
     (1994-12-08)
  

dogpile - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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; among hackers, it seems at least as
     likely to derive from an `autobiographical' Bugs Bunny cartoon in
     which a gang of attacking canines actually yells "Dogpile on the
     rabbit!".