d. wrote:
The counterpart to "Don't be a dick" is "Try not to come across as a dick to others." This is a pair like "be liberal in what you accept, be conservative in what you send."
Hmm. I would have thought the counterpart on that score was AGF. (That is, don't be a dick, and don't assume dickness in others.)
Most people understand "don't be a dick."
Well, most non-dicks, anyway. But the single greatest failure of WP:DICK was that not one dick in a thousand ever truly grasped the implications of that wholly remarkable sentence, "If a significant number of reasonable people suggest, whether bluntly or politely, that you are being a dick, the odds are good that you are not entirely in the right." (In fact, I suspect this is one of the underlying reasons that WP:DICK was banished to Meta.)