the.com/edit war
two people who each think they're the last line of defense for the truth, deleting each other forever.
means a repeated cycle where editors on a shared document, usually wikipedia, undo each other's changes instead of discussing them.
from formalized as wikipedia jargon in the early 2000s once the site's edit-history feature made every reversal visible and thus, inevitably, personal.
wikipedia rulethe three-revert rule caps daily undoing
famous battlegroundthe article on chocolate hummus had one
resolution toolpage gets locked, called protection