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 · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3538

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 · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3538

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 · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:58 pm Post subject:

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 · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3538

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

szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3538

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 · Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:27 am Post subject:

User: Ciss1965
Topic: better performance web graphics and images
Post: post 8821382
Reason: Looks like a spam placeholder. Please watch.
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Banana · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:10 am Post subject:

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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szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3538

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 · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3538

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 · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 2:02 am Post subject:

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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logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2789

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

Banana · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 1:05 pm Post subject:

User: jiminwilson
Topic: Howto: OpenVPN server
Post: post 8847440
Reason: Kind of necro post with some unspecific content.

User under watching -- fedeliallalinea
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logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2789

User: ak.plus.gold
Topic: Secure programming language discussion
Post: post 8847896
Reason: Somewhat suspicious. No mention of Gentoo, no nothing, straight into their "project" with very generic questions, no details whatsoever. Keep an eye.

I agree, under watching. Thanks for the report -- fedeliallalinea

Maybe my suspicion is not justified. There are responses from the user that seem to be genuine. --logrusx

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2789

User: mrbassie
Reason: post 8851388

That user is constantly looking for places to insert their trolling responses.

Thx. Already on the watch list. Since this post did not spark a direct conflict, it was left there. -- Banana

That's not the first or last time. This user is in my sight since early 2022 but it looks like this has been going on for years. I don't know what happens to the deleted posts, but if they are preserved in some way, look there. --logrusx

Yes and we do know the history. In this mentioned topic no bad result happened, nor futher comments from the mentioned user or any direct reations from others. We do unterstand that those kind of nonsense comments are annoying, but sometimes it is better to just ignore them and move on, like it has happend in the topic. We will always appreciate any reports for those.

sMueggli · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2022 Posts: 554

User: CaptainBlood
Topic: NFS server/client install fails here...
Post: post 8852491
Reason: The thread should be moved to "personal blog" as the user is not looking for support.

Thx for the report. It started as a question and we do not have such a category. Will keep an eye on it. -- Banana

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9356

User: mrbassie
Topic: Time for a reinstall and other DE
Post: post 8855707
Reason: Excessive and wholly unnecessary quote.

Thank you for your report. The moderation would have reacted even without it ... unfortunately the forum was down for longer today. --pietinger

sam_ · Developer Joined: 14 Aug 2020 Posts: 2196

User: Adel Ahmed
Topic: problem emerging x11-libs/libxkbcommon
Post: post 8855542
Reason: Please consider moving this to 'unsupported software'. The user keeps doing this with USE=-* configurations and it's a waste of people's time. He's been asked to state that up front (and really, do some debugging first), but that goes unheeded.

I agree, moved -- fedeliallalinea

grknight · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Feb 2015 Posts: 2037

User: neemoo
Topic: $30 Off Temu Coupon Code (redacted) for New and Existing users
Post: post 8856084
Reason: Spam

SIGBINBAN sent. Thanks for reporting! —Chiitoo

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2789

User: Nichlas
Topic: Problem using Emerge after wreckles QT/Plasma upgrade
Post: post 8856102
Reason: add code tags please

[Administrator response: I would like to, but the post is so long that adding the tags triggers a forum error. I am reluctant to delete content from the post to get below the size limit. -Hu]

As a workaround of sorts, I've split the 'emerge' output part up a little. —Chiitoo

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2789

Topic: Setup unixODBC to access PostgreSQL
Reason: Maybe this is for unsupported software like problem emerging x11-libs/libxkbcommon

It's about a three year old installation.

[Administrator response: Moved. -Hu]

Banana · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2025 7:15 pm Post subject:

User: SeanMine
Reason: Gambling link in profile

[Banned by an anonymous administrator. -Hu]
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 6:58 pm Post subject:

Just in case nobody noticed but I really hope this 0 views/0 replies problem gets fixed:
Topic 1173182 is clearly spam by user ninu30 but due to the bug in the forums for adding odd symbols in the topic, this topic is stuck and we can't report it directly, and can't even read the topic. We need to remove this so temu doesn't have free advertising on our forums... This topic shows up in the installing Gentoo subforum https://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-14.html

The admins hate this bug too. All me can do is to moderate the forum and move affected topics to the dustbin, which is a mods and admins only forum.
I've moved the post but the user was already banned before I arrived. There's teamwork. -- NeddySeagoon
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