warlording
<jargon> The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly or derivative sig block.
Common grounds for warlording include the presence of a signature rendered in a
BUAF, over-used or cliched sig quotes, ugly ASCII art, or simply excessive size.
The original "Warlord" was a BIFF-like newbie c. 1991 who featured in his sig a
particularly large and obnoxious ASCII graphic resembling the sword of Conan the
Barbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie; the group name alt.fan.warlord was
sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of warlording is devastatingly sarcastic
praise.
Usenet newsgroup: alt.fan.warlord.
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(1994-11-29)
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