Report violations, duplicates, misplaced posts, etc.

[pilla]

This will allow an easy method of contacting all moderators at one time.

• Users:
  • If you spot what you believe to be a duplicate post, please post a link to it here. In addition, include a link to what is being duplicated.
    
  • If you find a post you think belongs in a different forum, let us know.
    
  • Avoid multiple reports of spam:
    • If a user's posts are all spam, report the user, not the posts.
    • Review this thread after submitting a report. Please delete your report if someone beat you to the punch.
  • Any other post that you think requires moderation (violations of Guidelines, broken BBcode, etc.).
    
  
  
• Moderators:
  • Please delete posts after you've addressed them.

Thanks in advance.

(original post from pjp)

2009-06-03: Added spam reporting tips. --timeBandit
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[szatox]

User: jackfrostenson
Reason: Looks kinda bot-ish to me

Looks like a spam magnet to me. I expect to see spam posts for properties in Turkey from new users any time now.
I've posted a warning. The banhammer is close by. -- Neddyseagoon.

Maybe I'm too wait and see in my old age.

[szatox]

User: soparla
Topic: How to manage multiple gentoo installations
Post: post 8808277
Reason: Technically there's nothing wrong with this one, but it hits uncanny valley for me. It is also a necro-bump by a long term (though not very active) member... Kinda feels like a stolen account, though I don't have any way to verify it.
Dunno, I guess just watch for now.

Under watching, thanks for the report -- fedeliallalinea

[pietinger]

User: samiaaly
Topic: Does Gentoo have a Free pdf editor?
Post: post 8812533
Reason: See my edit. Please watch this user.
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[szatox]

User: Dejv2024
Topic: Upload files
Post: post 8814024
Reason: Please select the checkbox below:
[ ] I'm not a robot

Well worth a watch but nothing banworthy ... yet -- NeddySeagoon

[slider2]

User: ManfredB
Reason: Wie kann man diesen User auf Ignore stellen?

Moderator note:

Translated german text with DeepL: "How can I put this user on ignore?"



Moderator response:


Hello arfe,

the easiest method is not to read any threads or posts from this user.

Another option is to violate our forum rules (*) again - especially 8 or 9 or 10 - and then get banned.

If you violate number 16 of our forum rules again, you will also be banned again.

Ignoring mails from our admins and mods are also helpful to get banned.

*) https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-525.html

-- pietinger

[szatox]

User: rayded
Topic: epsxe cannot read virtual cd rom/mounted cd
Post: post 8820296
Reason: new user asking about gaming on windows.
At the very least wrong forum, possibly a spam placeholder

Thank you. One to watch. -- NeddySeagoon
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[pietinger]

User: Ciss1965
Topic: better performance web graphics and images
Post: post 8821382
Reason: Looks like a spam placeholder. Please watch.
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[Havin_it]

User: Ralphred
Topic: SDDM being an (almost) unmitigated PITA
Post: post 8822972
Reason: Offtopic and bait-y aside on inflammatory topic (George Floyd). No need for this crap here.

[logrusx]

User: honeymak
Topic: my gentoo build logs
Post: post 8823809
Reason: It looks like soliciting donations.

Asked for clarification in the topic. -- Zucca

It looks like the link is 404 now. -- logrusx

It looks like it was temporary. The form appears again. -- logrusx

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Gentoo Chat and locked. Added a comment to the last post by Zucca. If any mods are still communicating with the thread author, feel free to unlock if appropriate. --pjp, 2024-06-07

[flysideways]

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-572071.html I think this is the thread about vipernicus leaving us. I found it in a thread where John R. Graham asked what had happened to him.

It seems there was also a thread about John R. Graham's homebuilt.

Simple community stuff.

More recently, richk449 had a thread about the 3d printer he was making.

There is more that disappeared with otw, but remembering productive contributors only seems right.

Thanks. Working on searching those... -- Zucca
I dug few 3D-Printer topics, but I didn't found any where richk449 was building one. Also, I dug the Vipernicus farewell topic out from there too. -- Zucca

[GDH-gentoo]

... and what is being reported here?
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[Banana]

User: thomasmuller
Topic: Optimizing PHP Performance on Gentoo Servers
Post: post 8829891
Reason: Looks and sounds like some generated content... Will be watching

Moved to dustbin. Does not make sense - Banana
[Also, I notice that the user's e-mail address has marketing as an obvious substring. That is not quite ban-worthy on its own, but is highly suspicious. -Hu]
The user also has a prior post from April 7th that is mostly necro garbage. --pjp
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[setan]

User: setan
Topic: Cmatrix - autotools build fails
Post: post 8831008
Reason:
please help

[Administrator response: We do not generally delete question threads. You received an answer that may well help anyone else who tries this, so I think there is value in retaining the thread. If you no longer want to work on it, you could edit the opening post to note that there is an explanation and that no further work is planned. -Hu]

My response: I understand. However I would kindly as for an exception as the thread did not go far and I want to delete it due to privacy considerations.

[logrusx]

[szatox]

User: risingfire1
Topic: why Gentoo sucks, and why it will ultimately die
Post: post 8835641
Reason: Could be either just a bored new user or a placeholder.
Actually, do you guys receive notifications when users edit their own posts?

Beside necro posting, but on topic, I do not see anything wrong here, yet. --Banana
[We have access to the forum's notification tools, but administrator privileges do not automatically sign us up for notifications on user changes. Thus, it's good for someone to actively set a watch on suspect content. Sometimes we do this on our own, but it never hurts to have observant users call out suspicious activity we might have missed. -Hu]
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[szatox]

User: Desgraciado
Topic: [Solved] snapclient unable to find pipewire as an output
Post: post 8836671
Reason: I think this user is a bot and this post a spam placeholder.
So... Watch him

Under watching, thanks for the report -- fedeliallalinea
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[pietinger]

User: aDownwardSpiral
Topic: clipboard hijacking resulting in stolen crypto
Post: post 8838147
Reason: First post a few weeks after the account was created... with a strange problem ... maybe a spam link placeholder ... please watch.
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[asturm]

User: lars_the_bear
Topic: What does it mean for a -bin package to be ignored?
Post: post 8840334
Reason: Portage & Programming ............

[Administrator response: Moved. -Hu]

[asturm]

User: lars_the_bear
Topic: More FreeCAD pain. Sorry.
Post: post 8840173
Reason: Portage & Programming ...

[Administrator response: Moved. -Hu]

[asturm]

User: lars_the_bear
Topic: Safety of overriding USE=-wayland on a per-package basis
Post: post 8839611
Reason: Portage & Programming ...

[Administrator response: Moved. -Hu]

[asturm]

User: lars_the_bear
Topic: firefox-bin -- now with added apulse?
Post: post 8840217
Reason: Multimedia, maybe? EDIT: In the end, it's also simply about Portage handling ...

[Administrator response: Moved, twice. -Hu]

[asturm]

User: lars_the_bear
Topic: Do profile USE-flags change over time?
Post: post 8840192
Reason: Portage & Programming

[Administrator response: Moved. -Hu]

[logrusx]

User: gekk2
Reason: Suspiciously identical posts. Keep an eye on this user.

[Banana]

User: IngridCo
Reason: Profile link spam

Banned, thanks for the report -- fedeliallalinea
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PFL - Portage file list - find which package a file or command belongs to.
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