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Possible cheating in rounds?
By abdelrahman_rashed, history, 20 months ago, In English

So during yesterday's contest I have received these messages in my talk:

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Of course the first thing I had in mind was to report this, but I couldn't find a way to do so hence I made this blog.

I might as well add, receiving messages during a contest is very distracting, so MikeMirzayanov can we make notifications for messages sent during a contest appear only after the contest?

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If i remembered right, codeforces disabled sending messages during contests long ago right?

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This is so provocative and diverting attention. I would suggest not allowing everybody to message you, but set users of + certain rating to be allowed to write you. Like this attached photo I guess a +expert won't do this foolish act done by only temp accs

You can also block users from messaging you again

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    I won't want to do so because sometimes there are beginners who use messages to ask for help, and I don't want to turn anyone down.

    I do think that disabling message notifications during contests should be sufficient. Maybe adding a report feature in talks to avoid the need to make blogs like this in the future will help too.

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I am sorry but he doesn't learn I have to share it.

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