Muhammad-Saram's blog

By Muhammad-Saram, 5 months ago, In English

These days, there have been a lot of blog posts about cheaters.

Random Thought

And if you ask me, I'm tired of seeing "Cheater Exposed" and ... whatever blah blah.

Anyways, the number of cheaters is gradually increasing (or maybe just cheaters' reports increased), which could lead to consequences like decreasing the value of Codeforces; a large subset of participants are cheaters and a majority of blog posts are about Cheaters.

Admins really need to take some action about the current situation.

And to those Exposers, Patrols, Clubs, Investigators, Detectives, Hawk-eye and whatever they call themselves(sorry If I missed your "title"):
I'd like to say maybe let's just wait for some admin to take notice, I hope, soon some admin will write about the current circumstances. Maybe let's just let them be them, in my opinion, anyone who has reached a level of CM or even expert is already mature enough that they'll not even think about these things. Most of these people are just stuck newbies/pupils, and what could they even achieve from cheating, trust me, literally nothing. And if you're here just for practice and improvement, you shouldn't really care about these people.

P.S

Maybe some people are getting me wrong, by

they'll not even think about these things.

I mean that they'll not even think about cheating.

And that

Most of these people are just stuck newbies/pupils

So this should not affect anybody's rating much.

And even if it does

if you're here just for practice and improvement, you shouldn't really care about these people.

Shouldn't our main objective be practice?

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By Muhammad-Saram, 5 months ago, In English

I spent a lot of time on solving a problem and now I can't know it's verdict due to the long queue...
Really Frustrating

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By Muhammad-Saram, 17 months ago, In English

Why too many AMAs nowadays , almost half of the recent actions is occupied by this trend.

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By Muhammad-Saram, history, 19 months ago, In English
Disclaimer

Hello Codeforces!
I hope you would have enjoyed the recent contest Div.4 as its always easy for most of the community.
But there can be some problems,
And I would not like to waste your time on reading unnecessary things , so let me just start the real blog...
Today's contest's E problem 1829E - The Lakes was very much similar to this (or rather the same)
Actually the problem statements were different (but there was water in both ;) ) but the solution was exactly the same if you copy code of one problem and submit it into another it would get accepted but of course you would have to add/remove the code of multiple test cases.
Now what I want to say that this could be a coincidence , I don't want to blame any of the writers or testers but this thing needs be looked out. Because these kind of things really effects the contest results and hard work of many.
And the thing left about that the contest would be rated or unrated is simply the decision of MikeMirzayanov and the contest creators.

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