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

[logrusx]

User: lyallp
Topic: Chromium build time 36 hours??
Post: post 8826038
Reason: at least 3 violations of the forum guidelines:
1 hijacked a thread
2 did not contribute
3 acting disrespectful

Also the user is turning the thread into a chat.

logrusx,

Had you not posted along the lines you did, I would have said something similar but probably in PM.
The moderation team likes it best when the forums are self moderating. There is less for us to to :)
No immediate action. You have already done what was required. Thank you.
Lets see if the tread gets back on topic.

-- NeddySeagoon

[logrusx]

User: lyallp
Topic: Chromium build time 36 hours??
Post: post 8826126
Reason:the user has made at least 3 violations I've cited above. I've tried to imply that in previous posts, but he shows lack of awareness of his behavior. After being confronted in private about them with the suggestion to read the forum guidelines, he replied with "take your own advice" which clearly demonstrates no intention of conforming to the established rules whatsoever. If the rules of this forum are not being enforced, more of this should be expected.

The topic seems flow just fine at this point. No one other than you complain about this particular user. OP doesn't seem to be bothered about possible topic hijack.
To my eye, participants are sharing experiences and their solutions in a good manner for now. --Zucca

[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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[asturm]

User: ManfredB
Topic: Ein heftiger Kampf zwischen Paketen
Post: post 8828527
Reason: umpteenth duplicate thread for the same self-inflicted issues.

You have surely seen that I have already written a moderator note in this thread. That's why I don't understand this report. What is this report supposed to do? Is it a sign that you are not happy with the moderation? Do you want to cause a ban and hope to exert more pressure? -- pietinger

It is a sign that a certain level of frustration was reached. The moderator note was inconclusive.

Thank you very much for this explanation. -- pietinger

[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]

User: gcyoung
Topic: python 3.12 upgrade: no wheel name returned
Post: post 8830144
Reason: This thread is a complete piece of garbage, thanks to the odd behavior of the user. If somebody finds it, they'll be unable to extract any useful information from it. It doesn't benefit the community in any way. I think it should be moved somewhere out of sight.

Moderator note: In our forum, threads are only moved to a non-visible area in certain exceptional cases. In my opinion, this is not the case here, especially since our developer @sam_ has explained the error "no wheel name returned", which may help other users -- pietinger

[Banana]

User: mr.wedwilson
Reason: Now two posts of this user about HDD performance in a subject which was settled since ssd came out. Kind of spam...

I had already put under watching after first post, banned -- fedeliallalinea
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