: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 quote}s, 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.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the
electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting
software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
