"Essay writing" spam on Kodi blog

[JohnVeness]

"Essay writing" spam on Kodi blog

[ProfYaffle]

Thanks for that - that's the only mention of it I can quickly find on the Internet, so it's not a broad spam attack on multiple sites. Maybe we just had some personal attention...

I'll strip it out from that post now, and see if anything similar is on anything else.

[ProfYaffle]

Okay, I've modified what I can find - I think they're genuinely additions at the end of the page, rather than changing the text or overwriting anything, so I think we've lost nothing by just deleting them.

The website is rebuilding now. I'll leave this issue open for a moment in case we find more or need to reinstate any text.

Grateful thanks to @JohnVeness for spotting this and bringing it to our attention!

[ProfYaffle]

I've not found any more of this stuff, so I'm closing this issue now. If we uncover any more, well, we'll deal with it then.

Thanks again.

[ProfYaffle]

Similar found here:

https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-google-summer-code-2008-project/

[ProfYaffle]

Removed final paragraph from https://kodi.tv/article/fosdem-2015-presentation-videos/ - original text archived here:

Evaluation

Along with our main services we have opened the new one. It is called college essay help (linked to essaystore (dot) org). Due to the simple curriculum of college education and essay themes this subdivision deals with these kind of orders really fast. That is why almost all college students consider us as the main source of quality essays on the Internet. If you have any doubts, then you should use college forums and understand the truth of our every word.

[razzeee]

Yikes, you're right, seems to have happened on the old WordPress. Unfortunately Internet archive does not have a previous Version.

We should probably grep though the links and see if there is more.

[ProfYaffle]

Removed final paragraph from https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-google-summer-code-2008-project/ - original text archived here:

Our essay help online service (linked to essaylab (dot) org) has already had some run. It was one of our original offers to do this. Along with actually writing your essay Essaylab.org is also able to check your ones.

[JohnVeness]

Thanks for removing this spam!

While I was reading through the old blogs, I noticed some formatting errors (e.g. in https://kodi.tv/article/kore-new-official-android-remote/). Is there any interest in me doing PRs to try and fix these?

[pkscout]

If people are going to fix blog posts, I’d prefer they get updated via the CMS. Last time someone did a “quick” PR against main to fixa blog post, it broke the post and I had to fix it in the CMS. If we decide to do these as PRs, they should be done against staging where we can fully test them. They won’t get merged into main until Nexus releases though, as staging already has the Nexus addon section built.

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[JohnVeness]

Understood :)