Dogpile

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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!".
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)