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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>warlording</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="warez-kiddies.html" title="warez kiddies"/><link rel="next" href="warm-boot.html" title="warm boot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">warlording</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warez-kiddies.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warm-boot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="warlording"/><dt xmlns="" id="warlording"><b>warlording</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the Usenet group <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>] The act of excoriating a
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bloated, ugly, or derivative <a href="../S/sig-block.html"><i class="glossterm">sig block</i></a>. Common
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grounds for warlording include the presence of a signature rendered in a
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<a href="../B/BUAF.html"><i class="glossterm">BUAF</i></a>, over-used or cliched <a href="../S/sig-quote.html"><i class="glossterm">sig
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quote</i></a>s, ugly <a href="../A/ASCII-art.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII art</i></a>, or simply
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excessive size. The original ‘Warlord’ was a
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<a href="../B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>-like <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a> c.1991 who
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featured in his sig a particularly large and obnoxious ASCII graphic
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resembling the sword of Conan the Barbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie;
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the group name <tt class="systemitem">alt.fan.warlord</tt>
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was sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of warlording is devastatingly
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sarcastic praise. See also <a href="../M/McQuary-limit.html"><i class="glossterm">McQuary limit</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="warez-kiddies.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="warm-boot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">warez kiddies </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> warm boot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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