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by fsckboy 1049 days ago
it must be the "Wikipedia effect", because the term was "flash mob"
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nine_k 1049 days ago
Flash mob (2003) is newer than Slashdot(199x).

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

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ZeroGravitas 1049 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd
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KnobbleMcKnees 1048 days ago
If you read the second paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "slashdot effect" you'll see that the term was, in fact, "flash crowd".
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