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.

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