warlording
:warlording: v. [from the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord] 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 quote
s, ugly ASCII art
or simply excessive
size. The original `Warlord' was a B1FF
-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. See
also McQuary limit
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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