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It's an unfortunate side effect of the "flash crowd" and "Slashdot effect" articles being merged in the past. The editors at the time decided the terms were sy
by dragonrancher 3y ago
It's an unfortunate side effect of the "flash crowd" and "Slashdot effect" articles being merged in the past. The editors at the time decided the terms were synonymous, but "Slashdot effect" won out as the dominant title. The "1970s neologisms" category tag must have come from the "flash crowd" article.
- fsckboy 3y agoit must be the "Wikipedia effect", because the term was "flash mob"
- nine_k 3y agoFlash mob (2003) is newer than Slashdot(199x). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
- ZeroGravitas 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoIf you read the second paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "slashdot effect" you'll see that the term was, in fact, "flash crowd".