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In which case it was a distributed denial of service. But it wasn't an intentional attack, we wanted to hear you dig your graves more, it was the result of your shitty software not able to hold any kind of load.
Wikipedia has an entry on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
While I'm not sure that a flash crowd is a DoS, it is extremely similar to a DDoS attack making it difficult to detect.
I think a flash crowd is distinct from a DoS, tho. Even if flash crowds can often be initially categorised as a DDoS