How was the term "Slood" invented?

Much debate rages over the definition of the word "slood" and how the term was coined. Some language researchers claim the term has roots dating back to the days of the Roman empire when gladiators performed acts of slodare (pronounced slo-dar-eh) against enemies during fierce battles many thousands of years ago. Today, in modern times, the term was first used by people on the internet who needed to deal with flooders - that is, people who wrote or pasted copious amounts of drivel in real-time chat environments, such as IRC. Time was critical when dealing with those sorts of people, so IRC channel operators had to issue administrative commands, under extreme pressure, in order to remove those people from the channel and restore order. IRC channel operator etiquette states that when removing or "kicking" a person from a channel, one must include a reason for the kick. As such, a typical command that could be executed in order to remove a flooder from the channel would be something like this: #Melbourne > / kick JohnnyBeGood You Flooder! Under certain conditions, and in avalanches of floods, channel operators, under extreme pressure to act quickly, may hammer away such a kick command at the keyboard and may accidentally produce a typing error. Due to the layout of the standard QWERTY computer keyboard, IRC channel operators would sometimes make a mistake and hit the "S" key rather than the "F" key when specifying flooding as the reason for the kick. As the illustration below shows, the "S" and "F" keys are both on the same row on the keyboard, with just one key separating them. Thus those two letters are prime candidates for being interchanged when typing errors occur. Given the easy typing error that could occur, resulting in the use of the "S" key rather than the "F" key when kicking someone for flooding, the kick reason would sometimes show up as this: --- JohnnyBeGood has been kicked from #Melbourne: You Slooder! Over time, this mis-typing began to gain popularity amongst channel operators as a way to precisely describe a reason for kicking someone from an IRC channel without using the term "flood" which traditionally conjures up images of torrential rains and blocked drain pipes.