That would mean a positive feedback loop.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Positive_feedback_loop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Positive_feedback_loop</a><p>(Positive in this sense has a similar meaning in behavioral psychology&#x27;s terminology for operant conditioning, adding punishment.. which both come off as odd with our common use of positive as good and beneficial :&#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operant_conditioning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operant_conditioning</a>)<p>...Carrying on with your analysis, since uninterrupted positive feedback loops result in explosion, I guess that would mean either (for this outage) github&#x27;s fallback status page would go down or the parts of the network carrying that traffic, which could not handle their increased load, would go down.<p>Probably better we would rework these control mechanisms and reroute \ rewire \ entirely change these processes.