from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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.
[{Jargon File}]
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