Talk:Slashdot effect

1970s?
Why is this article in Category:Words_coined_in_the_1970s? The Slashdot Effect was obviously coined during the 1990s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.29.251.163 (talk) 13:10, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * "The term "flash crowd" was coined in 1973 by Larry Niven" - David Gerard (talk) 13:24, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * That's fine for the "flash crowd" term but the title of this article is "Slashdot effect". It definitely didn't exist in the 70's, the fact that some other term predates it doesn't change that. --Hooperbloob (talk) 03:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

This article is bordering on being completely wrong while still not being that wrong.

Slashdot effect was partially a flash mob but lasted fro two to three days. The term was from a specific era of the internet - from the late 1990s to the very early 2000s slashdot was a site that everyone who was technical in the tech industry visited. The slashdot effect was what was described when a small low-traffic site was suddenly visited by thousands of people and the traffic spike tended to last for two to three days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.222.221.204 (talk) 21:52, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 3 March 2017

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved. No consensus for this retitling. --  Dane talk  02:12, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Slashdot effect → Flash crowd – It no longer makes sense to have this article at a very specific title related to one site – it should use the generic version. Most of the sources in the article refer to the generic "flash crowd", and all the academic sources use the generic term. It is unusual to have this title, especially when Reddit's Alexa is 21 and Slashdot's is 3299 (not to mention Facebook or Twitter). The last RM (5 years ago) was closed as no consensus. Laurdecl talk 21:22, 3 March 2017 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 12:13, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now, per why does 'Flash crowd' redirect here, shouldn't it redirect to Flash mob? The page itself covers 'flash crowd' in its second paragraph, which says it's a more generic term than the subject covered by this page. Randy Kryn 03:45, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, at the moment this page is a weird combination of two similar concepts. I proposed this move because IMO the "Slashdot/Reddit/Facebook effect" should be a side note in a page titled "Flash crowd". We shouldn't have specific pages define general terms, but we should have general pages with a note about more specific terms. Laurdecl talk 06:04, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose, I'd support a more general term - but "flash crowd" doesn't seem to be it. Maybe there's some other term? We got the situation right now that the "slashdot effect" refers to the phenomenon's origin and "reddit effect" is currently the most used / relevant one but too restrictive. --Fixuture (talk) 13:44, 4 March 2017 (UTC)


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