I know, people hate this kind of blogs. What I mean by this kind is a call of help from a noob. But I think, I can not answer questions in my head by myself and need some guidance. I have started CP in October and eversince I had some achievements. What I call an achievement is promoting silver in USACO or being titled specialist in codeforces. But recently I am not able to find myself successful. I am aware of that my achievements are pretty normal for most of the people in codeforces. But when I started my journey I wanted to be good at what I do. But I guess I am not. The reason behind me writing this blog is "crying for help". I can not find inner peace for so long now. I feel stuck. It would be so great if you could guide me on what should I do next or even your experience helps. I hope you mind commenting to this blog. Cheers.

Hey, dear codeforces community.

Today I want to speak about a really meaningful topic. Since the beginning of my codeforces journey, I always tried to dive even deeper in the platform to discover its features. I recently came across with the feature of "contribution". I was really excited and wanted to have a contribution point. I commented once or twice, and got some upvotes. But after a while I noticed that my upvotes disappeared and my contribution point went to negative! I could not understand and decided to ask to the codeforces community. Why is this happening? Am I doing something wrong? Please enlighten me with your knowledge.

Cheers, coolboy19521

UPD: I got a contribution of -4 despite of 7 upvotes. I really don't understand this contribution system. I kindly ask your help, please.

UPD: Now it is +5