It's also a more succinct variation of Caltech's honor code: "no member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the community."
Did it work for you? I tried many times during school, and it didn't for me. People would appreciate the spirit of the rule, but it would be too subjective to be useful in the most heated situations.
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A friend lived in a co-op at Oberlin, which had only one house rule: "don't be an asshole."
That one rule supplanted all the traditional ones for group living: don't leave dirty dishes, don't play obnoxiously loud music late at night, etc.
Like the domestic version of "Don't be evil."
It's also a more succinct variation of Caltech's honor code: "no member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the community."
Wikipedia, now largely as a holdover from its less bureaucratic days, has a fairly similar meta-policy called "don't be a dick": http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick
Did it work for you? I tried many times during school, and it didn't for me. People would appreciate the spirit of the rule, but it would be too subjective to be useful in the most heated situations.