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Complete rewrite
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Complete rewrite is part of a series on final solutions.
[Gas 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.
