Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

warlording
     
         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: {news:alt.fan.warlord}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1994-11-29)