Comment by fsckboy | Hacker News Reader

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by fsckboy | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

it must be the "Wikipedia effect", because the term was "flash mob"

Flash mob (2003) is newer than Slashdot(199x).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd

If you read the second paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "slashdot effect" you'll see that the term was, in fact, "flash crowd".

Reply on news.ycombinator.com