>>I'm just not sure what would riot mean if applied to the person. I looked it up in Wikipedia, but don't see it as an idiom.
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>You have already been given the common meaning, i.e. "You are very funny." It's hard to tell what the guy on the ASP.NET forum meant when he said that. I'm sure you weren't the only one puzzled. Have you asked him what he meant? He's probably in a better position to tell you than we are.

I think "you're very funny" is the meaning, I also got it this way, especially based on our other exchanges...