{"id":1592,"date":"2015-01-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:24:30","slug":"1-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/1-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog anniversary: 1 year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/birthday-wishes-for-one-year-old-baby-e1417909188700-1024x647.gif?resize=580%2C367\" alt=\"birthday wishes for one year old baby\" width=\"580\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/birthday-wishes-for-one-year-old-baby-e1417909188700.gif?resize=1024%2C647&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/birthday-wishes-for-one-year-old-baby-e1417909188700.gif?resize=400%2C252&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/birthday-wishes-for-one-year-old-baby-e1417909188700.gif?resize=1272%2C803&amp;ssl=1 1272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/birthday-wishes-for-one-year-old-baby-e1417909188700.gif?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s been a year of weekly posts.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First of all I must thank your support. Over this year I kept receiving <strong>positive feedback from you, my loyal readers<\/strong>. I really enjoy writing these posts but it&#8217;s even better to know that you find them useful or amusing. It&#8217;s being an enriching experience because everyday I&#8217;m learning a bit more about <em>social media<\/em> and <em>writing for the web<\/em>. It&#8217;s hard work but it pays off.<\/p>\n<h3>Why the name?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I like technology, therefore &#8220;Geek&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>I like reptiles &amp; I&#8217;m cold-blooded, therefore &#8220;Gecko&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Thus, &#8220;The Geeky Gecko&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Statistics. Statistics everywhere!<\/h3>\n<p>Since this is a <del>technological<\/del> personal blog I tried to balance the subject of my posts to please both kinds of audiences. After <strong>51 weekly posts<\/strong> I think I managed to achieve that balance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/posts-subject.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/posts-subject.png?resize=303%2C342\" alt=\"posts subject\" width=\"303\" height=\"342\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average reader of my blog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is Portuguese, or American, or Brazilian<\/li>\n<li>visits the blog on Mondays<\/li>\n<li>reads the post at 11am, or 9am, or 22pm<\/li>\n<li>and takes 1 minute and 16 seconds to read it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Until last month I used the default commenting system provided by WordPress, without any human-validation software like reCAPTCHA. Over the course of the year, the number of <strong>spam comments increased exponentially<\/strong> as you can see from the graph below. In the first months I had an average of 100 spam comments but then it skyrocketed! I was having thousands of spam comments per week! You know, stuff about Oprah, pills, and crazy deals. Thankfully I had Akismet installed since day one (it&#8217;s really a must-have), which deleted all that spam for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1658\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/spam-evolution-1year.png?resize=580%2C285\" alt=\"Spam evolution in 1 year\" width=\"580\" height=\"285\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/spam-evolution-1year.png?w=910&amp;ssl=1 910w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/spam-evolution-1year.png?resize=400%2C196&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spam evolution in 1 year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In December, after several readers asking for a better commenting system, <strong>I migrated to Disqus<\/strong> and <strong>now I have 0 spam<\/strong>. Alongside all the other nice features Disqus provides, it sure keeps the spam at bay!<\/p>\n<h3>You gotta love the hatters<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1656\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/free_speech.png?resize=566%2C577\" alt=\"Source: www.xkcd.com\" width=\"566\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/free_speech.png?w=566&amp;ssl=1 566w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/free_speech.png?resize=392%2C400&amp;ssl=1 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: www.xkcd.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking about spam, there&#8217;s something worse &#8212; hate speech. At least spam is writen by cold bots. Trolling on the other hand is writen by actual human beings. Poor souls. Quoting a clever <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codinghorror.com\/your-community-door\/\">article of Coding Horror<\/a> about communities:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Free speech&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean we are obliged to listen to you being a jerk. This is our house, and our rules. You can go try a different house. Fortunately there&#8217;s a whole Internet of other communities out there. <cite>Jeff Atwood<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>tl;dr<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks. 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