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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 quote]s, 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.
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