warlording meaning

[Computer]
<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: alt.fan.warlord.

Examples

1. The process of mocking this signature became known as " warlording . " This usage was later extended to the dissection and mockery of any excessive signature block.
2. Although warlording was sometimes little more than flaming, regulars of the group considered a " good warlording " to be one which contained sardonic humor or vicious wit.
3. Although warlording was sometimes little more than flaming, regulars of the group considered a " good warlording " to be one which contained sardonic humor or vicious wit.
4. The newsgroup alt . fan . warlord was established as a forum for warlording, and its regulars continued to mock or flame any Usenet sigs they found ugly or impractical.
5. Because the law of agency is a very general pattern, primarily appliable in this case as the means of regulating the relationships between the said " powers ", but a question however in which considerations of logistics are sometimes to be taken in consideration, that definition is not always appliable outside of those contexts which can be analysed by analogy as related to warlording, even though it does relate more generally to all possible types of military coalitions.