I submitted the code 294052353 during 2034D - Darius' Wisdom, and today I received a penalty notification. It stated that my code is identical to that of xyz__31, Im_the_God_Coder_KM, Wali05, and encernwala. I did not share my code with anyone. I suspect that these four individuals are from India (the first two mentioned their nationality on their profiles), and one of them likely accessed my code through the post-solution hack feature after solving the problem and then shared it with the others. I believe this inference is reasonable, as there have been numerous blogs on CF highlighting such behaviors by some individuals from India.
For example:
Why is there so much cheating in Contests in India ? Especially on CodeChef?
And many others.
Based on the above, I don’t think I should receive this penalty. Could you please revoke it?
The four records above are the submission histories of these four participants.
i can feel you,this guys literally cheats a alot for pump up there rating in delusion to get a job,hope you your penalty gets reverts,they do this especially on cf,cc,lc like imagine having under 400 rank on cc and suddenly you get topple to 800 in last 30 mins
Cheaters sucks.
Only punish those who are not the first to submit their codes. This may be better.
But if the first submitter intentionally leaked the code, they also violated the rules and should be punished.
but how do you even tell the difference
one possible fix is that if a person solution is leaked in multiple contest in a short span of time (say, their solutions have been copied in 3 contests in a single month), then it is extremely likely for them to intentionally distribute their code.
stop hacks in contest in non-Educational contests ?
That also works, in contest hacks are kind of useless anyway, and it's so easy to cheat because you can literally convert the image into code using AI. But I guess some people may be unhappy for whatever reason so I think we should ask them first
true.
The best solution to reduce false positives in plagiarism detection.
don't worry, your submission is not affected here, it still sucks though
Although this incident currently has no impact on me, it will be recorded in my personal history, and if a similar situation happens in the future, I may be penalized.
That's true, I think we should actively shame these cheaters so that they know there are real consequences. This guy Im_the_God_Coder_KM is on LinkedIn bragging about the achievements he got by cheating
"bragging about the achievements"
The achievements: 1700 rating at Codeforces
...Duh. On what lengths would they go for such a mundane feat...?
To Indians, even specialist is a feat because 96% are pupil or lower. Pretty sad.
sadly, i agree to that and have seen my college mates getting penalised often
please recruiters, please stop considering CF ratings for shortlisting in india please please please
please please
In the end when they ask hard dsa question they will fail :)
One of the problemsetter for Meta Hacker Cup 2024 here. I didn't realize we have a Quarter Final.
Quarter Final is registering for the competition
Maybe instead of explicitly mentioning a country, you could have kept the discussion limited to cheaters and cheating.
I support you! It's important to bring attention to such issues for a fair competitive environment. I hope the admins review your case thoroughly
Hi, you didn’t receive any penalties. Sometimes, you might see a message about code similarity when the system detects similar code. However, in such cases, it recognizes that you didn’t cheat or share your code. We’ll resolve this issue soon.
OK, thanks.
Could you please sort this out too?
Mail says about these submissions 294541298, 294566190. Doesn't look like his penalty is unfair.
Why the post solution hack feature is not being disabled?? Can't we have a short hacking phase after the contest kind of thing(in div2s like div3/4 and educational rounds).
+1, this cheating scenario was expected long time ago, and it actually happens. Why not this is the time to treat this situation?
For the hacking feature, Mike said "We're making progress" 3 months ago, and I'm curious what's the current progress.
Shameless cheaters.
I'm on your side.
Not supporting anyone and can't conclude anything definite from this, but the only person who locked D in your room is xxh1999. Not Indian according to their profile, interesting.
First, we cannot rule out the possibility that xxh1999 provided help to these four cheaters.
Second, a more reasonable guess is that someone who was in my room might have been kicked out of the contest because they copied someone else’s code. As a result, their records during the contest are no longer visible in my room. I starred Im_the_God_Coder_KM and found that his submissions during the contest cannot be seen on the friends' leaderboard. This indicates that those who are skipped are removed from the contest.
My bad, didn't know they get kicked out of rooms too after getting skipped. But then, how would the person who submitted first among them have access to your code before locking their submission, someone else must've provided it to them, Or the one who provided also got skipped due to some other submission. Only the admins can find if someone else locked too now I guess.