Something does not add up.

It looks to me like Voat's admins wanted all of us to read that page for some reason. Possible disinfo, I don't know. I doubt the one page was attacked specifically - that makes no sense. Anyone who understands web servers would realize that fetching one specific URL as a DDOS is neither going to make the one page "break" any more than the rest of the site, nor is it even going to hurt the server as much as other tactics. Not to mention, if they are trying to get us not to look at that page why would they draw attention to that page.

If you wanted to DDOS a server you probably wouldn't hit one page over and over again (unless it were a special page that you know is especially computationally expensive to load). Rather, you would crawl it, or hit thousands of pages, hit the login page, search functions etc in order to generate more database work, and as much cpu load, memory usage, database load, and cache misses as possible.