Plonk
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Plonk is British and Canadian slang for cheap wine. It is supposed that the term is a corruption of "blanc."
Plonk is also a Usenet slang term for adding a particular person to one's kill file. It can be used as a verb to describe the action, or appended to the end of one's Usenet post to publicly demonstrate that you have added a person to your kill file.
Example usage:
Anonymous User wrote: > Your ideas are foolish and poorly conceived. That does it! *plonk*
In this case the respondent has added Anonymous User to their killfile and has decided to emphasise the point by adding "plonk" to the bottom of his post.
The word is a somewhat fanciful example of onomatopoeia, intended to humorously represent the supposed sound of the user hitting the killfile (like hitting the bottom of a barrel). It is commonly used as a verb: "I plonked that idiot".
It can also mean Put Lamer on Killfile. Other theories include Person with Little Or No Knowledge and Person Leaving Our Newsgroup, Killfiled.