Similar in nature to a Denial of Service attack (AKA DoS attack), the Denial of Productivity Attack (AKA DoP attack) is any method employed that keeps a person, group, community or other set of humans busy in such a way as to prevent them from being productive in the tasks that they have prioritized for themselves.
For example, the actions of a bureaucracy troll are essentially a DoP attack on active individuals in a community, and thus the community itself.
I have not found any literal references to "Denial of Productivity Attack" thus I believe I am the first to use that precise phrase.
Here are previous references to "denial of productivity" which clearly indicate the same or a similar concept and thus deserve recognition. emphasis added.
Denial of Productivity. Yes, because that's the tradeoff the current PC model has presented us in the era of the Internet.
Every probe, every attack that we have to respond to irregardless of whether that attack or probe succeeded or had any chance of success, is a denial of productivity.
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