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

[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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[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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[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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[logrusx]

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

[logrusx]

User: pjp
Topic: emerge usage that is confusing
Post: post 8843240
Reason: That's really getting off topic and it's really annoying to see even administrators buying into it. It makes a bad impression rules/guidelines are not for everyone. I would push back even further, but I'm not buying further into it.

p.s. if you want to discuss it, maybe split the thread.

EDIT (pjp): I did consider splitting it due to the number of posts on the subject, but it is directly related to the original question. "Would this usage be correct?" And that included the use of --with-bdeps=y. Subsequent discussion on whether to use that feature or not, and any related problems or considerations seem to me to be very on topic. --pjp, 2024-10-18

I think you could take two routes here. The route you took speaks a ton.

[asturm]

User: CaptainBlood
Topic: Lxqt now depends on wayland :-( Alternatives?
Post: post 8846968
Reason: It is not the first offtopic post in a support thread. And they continue blogging. Maybe you can split/move it to their usual blogging subforum?

[Banana]

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]

User: honeymak
Topic: gcc-14 - cannot build app-crypt/seahorse
Post: post 8847517
Reason: ???

Well, no reason given. Whatching and waiting what will follow. -- Banana

He was asked to file bugs in one of his other meaningless threads. It's not our business what's in his mind. That's so odd response that it starts bringing other kind of questions. --logrusx

Thx for the clarification. I dont have all topics remembered all the time. So more context given will always be usefull. -- Banana

[steve_v]

User: Bitcoin12
Topic: Kickstart Your Bitcoin Journey with Exclusive Black Friday B
Post: post 8847658
Reason: Spam

Binned and banned, thanks for the report -- fedeliallalinea
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[Zucca]

User: NagalandStateLotterySamba
Reason: Spam
Action: Binned
Current state: Waiting for ban

[Banned. -Hu]
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[Banana]

User: EmilPink
Reason: Another with a SPAM link in its profile

[Banned. -Hu]
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[Naib]

User: CaptainBlood
Topic: bcachefs
Post: post 8847772
Reason: ???

Please provide more then just some question marks as a reason. As I wanted to ask CaptainBlood he already responed, you could have easily asked CaptainBlood yourself what the purpose of the post was. -- Banana
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[sam_]

User: CaptainBlood
Topic: clang vs gcc
Post: post 8847781
Reason: We've been here (with other users, possibly, I don't remember who it was) wrt ChatGPT-style posts. Posting nonsense from them isn't good for the forums. It means people waste their time rebutting it when instead, people could ask earnest questions, or just do their own research. The quote in particular here from ChatGPT has a bunch of errors.

Locked. --pjp