warlording


warlording

(jargon)The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly or derivativesig block. Common grounds for warlording include thepresence of a signature rendered in a BUAF, over-used orcliched sig quotes, ugly ASCII art, or simply excessivesize. The original "Warlord" was a BIFF-like newbiec. 1991 who featured in his sig a particularly large andobnoxious ASCII graphic resembling the sword of Conan theBarbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie; the group namealt.fan.warlord was sarcasm, and the characteristic mode ofwarlording is devastatingly sarcastic praise.

Usenet newsgroup: news:alt.fan.warlord.