Complete rewrite

Complete rewrite is part of a series on final solutions.

[crackersGas the...]

• Apology
• Ban fucking everyone
• Buy a dog
• Complete rewrite
• Delete fucking everything
• Deleting your LiveJournal
• Deleting your Youtube Videos
• Done with ED
• Flounce
• Holocaust
• Internet Kill Switch
• It was a social experiment
• KILL IT WITH FIRE
• Mass Murder
• Never drinking again
• Nibiru/Planet Nine
• Peter Jennings died, so I'm going to quit smoking
• Quitting IRC forever
• Ragequit
• Suicide (see also An Hero)
• Wikicide (Wikibreak)
• Unsubscribing
• X FUCKING Y

Also known as Burning Down The House, Format C:, or Aunt Flo Is Visiting.

• On Encyclopedia Dramatica, a good place to look for articles needing a complete rewrite is the Crap category - articles in need of a rewrite are so marked with the {{crap}} template.
• On Apple products, a "complete rewrite" entails downloading the latest crapfest from kernel.org, adding a fat and ugly interface and then claiming to have invented unix.
• On Livejournal a complete rewrite is more or less the equivalent of removing an entry (or select contents thereof) in order to not offend and lose the money of corporate sponsors.
• A normally-good band will "re-invent" themselves into a shitty band in order to drive up sales, usually by adopting a "punk rawk" persona.

With the noted exception of the first point, generally a complete rewrite is a bad thing, due to the second law of thermodynamics which states that all systems are spiraling down in to disorder, also known as the law of entropy.

Remember: he who is listed at the top of the history page is KING.

See Also

• Encyclopedia Dramatica:When is it crap?
• Goatse
• Tfo
• OldDirtyBtard