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[kevingaustin]

So I was looking at the Wikipedia entry on sig blocks. When I came across this:

The inclusion of titles such as "MBA" is often considered grandstanding or warlording.

That's not right, is it? I didn't think that warlording had anything to do with listing a title after your name.

Comments

[grepper.livejournal.com]

I agree entirely

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Grepper - Warlord

Oh no! The linkies went away...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

warlording

[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 quotes, 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. See also McQuary limit.