warlording
[from the USENET group alt.fan.warlord] v. 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.
