A "flood" is when a forum or other type of online community has a large surge in the amount of people participating in the discussions. Usually triggered by a mojor event, like the beta test, the number of members jumped from about 1500 to over 4000 in a few days. That was a big "flood" at the time because the number of people nearly tripled. There where newbs going all over the place. So it was like a "flood" of newbs. Now, since WW released these mod tools, the number of people is about 15000. I have only seen one person on this mod forum whos member number is below 1500, other than me.

That is what I mean by a "flood".