wheel wars

Noun

wheel war (plural wheel wars)

1. (slang) A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the system or repeatedly attempt to reverse each other’s administrative actions.
   • WHEEL WARS. A period during which student wheels hack each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other’s files, or otherwise wreak havoc—usually at the expense of the lesser users. A battle of Titans (heh heh).[1983, Guy L. Steele Jr., Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, The Hacker’s Dictionary: A Guide to the Computer Underground, New York...