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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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 18564

Posts have been split off to 2018 - 2019 Reports. Quoted username link to their respective posts.

2018 Reports

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 16022

User: clarc21
Topic: Civilization VI running a blank screen
Post: post 8413074
Reason: New user posting Windows-specific advice ("set it to start as admin in the compatibility settings of game.exe"). There is no sign of profile spam or in-post spam yet. The user might merely be lost, but should be watched.

Usually I like to wait for them to add them URLs, but this time I went ahead and binned them posts already. However, I kept the hammer sheathed(!?) for now. Let's see what it will do next, if anything! —Chiitoo
Agreed. -Hu

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7447

User: Rutcha
Reason: 1 message, url in profile, archeologist poster, i didn't click the bait, spam for me

The url is github.io. I believe others consider that an acceptable url. My .02. Thanks for reporting. --pjp
[According to https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/about-github-pages, $STRING.github.io is the usual location for a Github Pages site owned by the Github account $STRING. This site can be anything Github will allow the accountholder to post. It's not necessarily legitimate nor necessarily spam, but must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. -Hu]

Tony0945 · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:21 pm Post subject:

necktwi · Apprentice Joined: 24 Aug 2018 Posts: 157

User: Android_xml
Reason: she bait #Aliza

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 2:56 pm Post subject:

User: ellaavery
Topic: I am from Israel ! Does someone too ?
Post: post 8450950
Reason: suspect
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 16022

User: JACOB09
Reason: Currently three posts, all of them vague enough to apply to troubleshooting almost any program at all. This may be a setup for spam posts later.

watching it
banned, 4th post was SPAM

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 6:12 am Post subject:

User: AshokRajan
Topic: qemu virglrenderer (virtio), black screen with X
Post: post 8467452
Reason: suspect

watching it, seems a failed bot from a SEO -- xaviermiller
[Split the suspect post off to the dustbin since it was not useful, and the split gets the response count on the original thread back to 0, so that it counts as an unanswered post. -Hu]
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:27 am Post subject:

Topic: Android Phone File Transfer without MTP Access ?
Reason: Fill better in Unsupported Software

Dustbin may be even better (I found a verbatim copy at linuxquestions.org), but let's watch for a while... —Chiitoo
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:38 pm Post subject:

User: gonzaleznelson
Topic: [SOLVED] Ethernet interface not working
Post: post 8468426
Reason: suspect

watching it
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e3k · Guru Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 516 Location: Inner Space

User: Cleverson
Topic: Seeking a laptop capable of beeps during boot
Post: post 8469524
Reason: suspicious linky activity. hard to tell. just take a look.
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asturm · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:20 pm Post subject:

User: CatherineRomero
Topic: Gentoo MATE needs *you*
Post: post 8471446
Reason: suspicious

hammer is ready
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Naib · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:19 pm Post subject:

User: crocket
Topic: Covid-19 (part 4)
Post: post 8476802
Reason: spam
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CaptainBlood · Veteran Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 1892

User: s0dyy
Created on the 6th july 2020.
Didn't post on any forum.
Private messaged me about one of my post.
If my expectations are correct, we likely won't hear much of him in the future.

Just notifying, as I guess there isn't much to do by now but wait & see.

Having a look at the message itself (it was reported as potential spam, after all), it could be a legitimate user who does not quite grasp the whole "ask in public, for the benefit of the public" aspect of forums. Though it does bear watching, thanks. -- the all seeing I

Fulgurance · l33t Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 777

User: asturm
Topic: Plasma - Wallpaper preview isn't visible
Post: post 8480004
Reason: aggressive people

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:19 pm Post subject:

User: DaleRaynor
Topic: PHP - update Oracle Instant Client
Post: post 8481754
Reason: spam placeholder copied copied from topic 1115074
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:51 pm Post subject:

User: ethael
Reason: yasp

How so? The profile contains a link to a personal site which does not appear to be selling anything not even the services of its owner. -- desultory
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 6:31 pm Post subject:

User: erasmause
Topic: Looking for a lightweight browser
Post: post 8484638
Reason: spam

{
Could be. --pjp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlimBrowser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_IceDragon
}
I marked this as spam because are windows only browsers -- fedeliallalinea
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Chiitoo · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:18 pm Post subject:

User: Etoanna
Topic: minecraft-launcher : Error 255
Post: post 8482928
Reason: Likely to-be spam, or at the very least near-verbatim copy of 1103974. Watching it for a while.
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7447

asturm · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:45 pm Post subject:

User: Julia_
Topic: Pole climbing orgasm?
Post: post 8488180
Reason: Wow! What a thread to uncover for yasp.

watching it
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Tony0945 · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:36 pm Post subject:

asturm · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:51 pm Post subject:

Such a report and subsequent move is nothing against the user. It is for other users, potential newbies, not to be confused with advice to get something out-of-tree running that is often detrimental to a regular system. After the overlay/ebuild usage questions were settled it is now already headed down a deeper path specific to this out-of-tree package.

And then now it is looking as if they are using Sabayon as well, so all the more reason to move it.

Topic moved with a health warning to others. -- NeddySeagoon
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 16022

As I understand it, moving to Unsupported Software is appropriate (a) if the request involves running the software on a derivative of Gentoo (such as Sabayon, or Calculate), because those derivatives usually make changes that could be relevant to the request; or (b) if the request involves running software that is out-of-tree, because such packages often require special handling to deal with their dependencies, to eliminate incorrect use of bundled libraries, etc. Despite the name Unsupported Software, many forum regulars read that forum and provide support to requesters who have been sent there. In this case, the thread seeks to run software that satisfies both (a) and (b), and the request is further complicated by its very outdated dependencies. The poster linked to advice on how to install the package on Ubuntu, but that advice covers Ubuntu 14.10 as its newest Ubuntu. According to Wikipedia, and that version number, that release would have been in October 2014, with Ubuntu 15.04 to follow in April of 2015. The cited advice makes no mention of 15.04, suggesting that it has not been updated in more than 5 years.