Why would I say that in front of any female colleage or any non-technical layman? We already have a name for this and it is a "popup".
Which sounds better?
"Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover"
Be honest.
This is hardly convincing. The author even describes it as a "popup" or a "popover" which is already descriptive enough without further explanation. It is just an "unwanted popup" or "unwanted popover".
The fact he brought up a definition of that word after mentioning "popover", just made the need for "d*ckover" uneccessarily redundant.
It may work with 30 people in tech, but will not work on TV. "unwanted popup" or "unwanted popover" is better to say on TV than "d*ckover".
> Be honest.
The latter definitely is the more honest answer.
Both of them are shorter than the "dickovers" or "clickovers" nonsense.
The derogatory term is for practices that rightfully deserve contempt.
> The derogatory term is for practices that rightfully deserve contempt.
But it doesn't mean that you should expect the layman to use it in common parlance.
Either "Unwanted popup / popover" and even "popup" / "popover" is a far sensible descriptive alternative for the layman than whatever the author is proposing.
Doubtful ... where did that odd notion spring from?
> It would even fail many profanity filters in chats and forums.
Perhaps in LDS or uber Christian pearl clutching circles, it's absolutely milquetoast in UK / AU Commonwealth English cultures.
eg: UK public broadcast TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbSqdSKaXTw
> But it doesn't mean that you should expect the layman to use it in common parlance.
I'm pretty sure that horse bolted long ago.
Searching "Dickover" all over the internet and other than Mastodon (which is heavily used by techies), and the author's blog, it is only being mentioned by techies here.
So of course, you can't ever admit you are in a tech bubble.
> Perhaps in LDS or uber Christian pearl clutching circles, it's absolutely milquetoast in UK / AU Commonwealth English cultures.
Nope. Any platform that has basic censorship tools in chats. Just search "Twitch, YouTube" profanity filter(s).
Even basic filters flags it as profanity here: [0] [1].
> I'm pretty sure that horse bolted long ago.
I'm pretty sure you clearly do not know that.