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: news:alt.fan.warlord.
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