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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
quotes, 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.
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