What is a Dickover?
by Gordon Weakliem
I have other topics I’ve been wanting to write about, but Jon Gruber defined “dickover” with such humor, you should click that link and go read it. Really, click the link.
Couple of thoughts:
- Jon should make a t-shirt, with some interesting text or picture on it, but with a giant “Don’t be a dickover” splashed across it. Better if it had a “no, thanks” button in the corner. I’d love to do it, but that’d be stealing his concept, and that’d be a dick move.
- There should be a concept for those chatboxes that are on every corporate site. You know, you go to learn about a product and some little box pops up in the corner, sometimes obscuring content, currently “AI powered”, that will probably connect you to sales. It’s extremely annoying on sites for documentation of a commercial product. I don’t need to talk to sales, I’m already using your product. I’m trying to find out how to use your product. I suggest “dickbox”, like the original SNL bit where it’s a dude trying to offer you something you can already get for free, but making it look like a gift.
- I love that Jon had another term “dickpanel” 4 years ago but recently hit on “dickover”. He’s right, it’s a better term. I was thinking that it’s pretty typical for the coiner of a term to not hit on the final term, the example I think of is that supposedly the inventor of the crossword puzzle called it a “word-cross puzzle”. I think Jon nailed it on the second iteration.
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