warlording

2 definitions found

warlording - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

warlording - 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 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.