< jargon , abuse > (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!", generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis.
The term is often used on IRC , news:alt.sysadmin.recovery , and sometimes applied to IRC botwars , because of their equally pointless nature.
(1999-07-14)