Report violations, duplicates, misplaced posts, etc.

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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 · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 1709

User: zux0x3a
Topic: Gentoo Install Script
Post: post 8264232
Reason: I thought that was a genuine user, but now I think we have a really well disguised advertising profile here.
Also, the skill level presented on the forums seems to be kinda low compared to the one required for the linked website.

khayyam · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:40 am Post subject:

User: Tonny91
Topic: Query Method Recovery Linux from error 'fix the system files
Post: post 8269926
Reason: given openSUSE is not gentoo, and openSUSE 11.1 is from 2008, I suspect his is another cut&paste from some other support forum masking a spammers first post.

[Moderator response: Probably so. This appears to be a copy of https://superuser.com/questions/397927/how-to-recover-linux-from-repair-file-system-error. As such, binned and PM sent. -Hu
2018-10-15: Received a response asserting it is not spam. However, considering the finding documented here, I requested further clarification before restoring it. -Hu
2018-10-31: No further response from the user. This was likely a spammer who was slightly more persistent than most. -Hu]

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 6887

User: dminca
Topic: [SOLVED] Intel HD Audio in Kernel?
Post: post 8270634
Reason: if i was myself having issue with sound, i would make a post asking to get a solve rather than querying someone else if he manage to have his sound working (as my sound issue won't get fix by his answer)
and with zillions threads about sound issues we have, i would had choose an active one rather than a 2016 post
number of post #1
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khayyam · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:10 am Post subject:

asturm · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:57 pm Post subject:

User: steveL
Topic: [split reports] Topic: SystemD free system/gentoo
Post: post 8281682
Reason: I'd like to raise a formal complaint about steveL's bullyish behaviour. He's just not able to let go. I can live with the moderators' decision to take no action on my original report, but steveL clearly seems to perceive the existence of this thread as a moderative pat on his back.

How he can manage to take "/me bangs heads together. -- NeddySeagoon" as encouragement is beyond me, not to mention pjp's comments, I guess it is my turn at (clue) bat. -- desultory
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 3:05 pm Post subject:

Topic: Opera packaging
Reason: spam placeholder, copied from this topic

watching it until it will be a real spam

[2019-02-04: Still no demonstrable spam, but someone preemptively binned the topic. User account not yet banned, so not deleting this report yet. -Hu]
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:26 pm Post subject:

User: poxopeh
Topic: /lib64/libncurses.so.5: file too short cydiaimpactor<SOLVED>
Post: post 8299162
Reason: maybe legit user, but suspect

[Moderator remark: agreed. Disabled the automatic link for now. This one bears watching. -Hu]
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:42 pm Post subject:

User: nonon3453423w
Reason: spam profile

are you sure?
When I posted there was a spam website. I don't remember what -- fedeliallalinea
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SteveBavalis · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2019 Posts: 2 Location: Canada

User: bammbamm808
Topic: Problem with booting a new board and/or new drive
Post: post 8303226
Reason: The UEFI documentation is indeed lacking, and the systemd documentation even more so. Even so, a "guru" talking down to people trying to follow the official documentation is inexcusable.

Suggesting more effective means of finding fixes for problems hardly seems "inexcusable". Also, as with your previous account, I have removed the profile link to your business site. -- desultory

SteveBavalis · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2019 Posts: 2 Location: Canada

desultory, are you suggesting that using google instead of fixing the gentoo documentation so that simple things that come up on 99% of installs is the preferred method? While I do acknowledge that this is in line with what happened to the package archive back in the day, where there was a bug in the search feature, they just removed the search feature and posted an "all good now" post. And also in alignment with the bug that I asked about in dlm that was submitted in 2014, and marked confirmed in 2017, but has not made any progress since being submitted. None of these things are helping to make the distro better, which I am sure we are all in agreement on, is what our goal is.
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desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9156

Jaglover · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:18 pm Post subject:

Topic: Chromium build failed
Reason: Building in DOS?

[Moderator response: Moved to Unsupported Software (from Portage & Programming) in the likely vain hope that the user is merely confused, rather than a poorly disguised spammer. -Hu]
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asturm · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 7:31 pm Post subject:

User: patrix_neo
Topic: Cure for cancer eminent?
Post: post 8307246
Reason: I was curious so I looked up 'sod' in urban dictionary and it came up with 'sodomite'.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 17655

asturm · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 9:13 pm Post subject:

It's OTW after all so I'll default to UD, but you may be right... the user had some weird Soros posts in the past, be that as it may...
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 17655

I'm rarely able to decipher what he is usually trying to communicate. At best, I might get a "big picture" sense of it.
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asturm · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:14 pm Post subject:

User: patrix_neo
Topic: Soros arrested?
Post: post 8307732
Reason: This whole thread is so wrong. OTW is the sicko of Gentoo Forums.

Emphasis on https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8307766.html#8307766

I tend to disagree about the forum as a whole, but that topic certainly makes an argument for it. -- desultory
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notageek · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:33 pm Post subject:

User: Muso
Topic: AOC is gaslighting, and the media is complicit.
Post: post 8308550
Reason: This thread is not compliant with CoC for Gentoo Communications and the poster should be banned because (s)he is a repeat offender.

Do not abuse the report function, thanks. -- desultory
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Naib · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:07 pm Post subject:

User: shadywack
Topic: systemd discussion: agree to disagree
Post: post 8309502
Reason: this isn't OTW

I noticed and shadywack isn't the first to stray form the topic -- NeddySeagoon
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ian.au · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 423 Location: Australia

Topic: very happy I finally signed up
Reason: Spam

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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:50 am Post subject:

User: dauchanviet
Reason: yasp
btyfr
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:49 am Post subject:

User: govtjob
Topic: Rrb ntpc
Topic: Junior Engineer (JE)
Topic: Recruitment
Topic: Latest Buzz
Topic: Update on vacancy
Topic: Eligibility
Reason: spam

banned by another mod, thanks -- pilla
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:01 am Post subject:

User: nazmaran
Topic: کلیک ویو
Post: post 8310652
Reason: spam

Banned, thanks.
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freke · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:25 am Post subject:

User: govtjob
Topic: Mock Test
Post: post 8310676
Reason: Spam-posts

Banned, thanks.