Nuke

On Everything 2 a "nuke" refers to the deletion of a node or writeup. You can go to E2 nuke requests and ask that one or several of your own writeups be deleted or bring to the editor's attention something you feel should be removed and the reason why.

There is no xp loss from a nuke request except the 1 xp you gained when you submitted the writeup.

"Nuking" should not be confused with the "kill" function which can result in a 5 xp loss to the author of the deleted writeup.

See the power structure of everything 2 for details on editorial groups. See the voting/experience system for details on xp.

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E2 Glossary

• a nuclear powered submarine

• a person who works on or with a ship's nuclear power plant

nuke /n[y]ook/ vt.

[common] 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume. "On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem." Never used for accidental deletion; contrast blow away. 2. Syn. for dike, applied to smaller things such as files, features, or code sections. Often used to express a final verdict. "What do you want me to do with that 80-meg wallpaper file?" "Nuke it." 3. Used of processes as well as files; nuke is a frequent verbal alias for kill -9 on Unix. 4. On IBM PCs, a bug that results in fandango on core can trash the operating system, including the FAT (the in-core copy of the disk block chaining information). This can utterly scramble attached disks, which are then said to have been `nuked'. This term is also used of analogous lossages on Macintoshes and other micros without memory protection.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Sample usage:

"My soup is cold!"
"Nuke it for 30 seconds."