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.