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]

(1994-11-29)