Ever since people have started using AI in contests, there is always a lot and lot of blogs after each contest reporting cheaters and talking about them. It’s obvious that some form of action against cheaters is always required, but reading through the blogs and seeing so many of them just reporting is just really frustrating.
I think since this has become one of the biggest points of discussion, it requires its own separate section in codeforces where people can report and write about these cheaters. Not only will this let more useful blogs be shown more but I think it will make taking action about these people much easier since there are all in one place now (I’m not sure how codeforces handles AI cheaters but I’m pretty sure this could help).
I mean like anything that includes rating/rank and cheating nowadays does this. Basically any online game or chess.com for example. So I can't see why codeforces doesn't also do this.
(it might also be true that I saw 3 blogs about cheaters at 2 a.m and that made me really mad for some reason and what I'm saying is completely useless)
I would advocate that we should have a report section separated to do it and thus this issue is solved and it would be also more easier to check for the headquarters.
And headhunter's bounty of +10 contribution for each exposed cheater.
I will keep making accounts and cheating with them then report them to farm contribution
If it's really the best thing you can do in you life, then sure go for it. But I strongly believe that those who legitimately put effort to make community better deserve some reward.
Agree. We are tired of seeing these blog, and comment under the Editorial is useless. Hope CodeForces will come up with a better idea to deal with AI cheaters...
Maybe we need a section for reporting, then the administrators will ban them one by one after considering. Futhermore, retristing signing up new account should be implemented.
I mean there're ways to prevent those cheaters but for some reaaons it hasn't been taken up yet.
I agree to this make a separate sections for reports n blogs, and for the love of god just implement phone number verification.
Also despite all the cheating that is happening, i would say that becoming an expert/specialist has actually gotten easier now. You also have to take into account the influx of new users on the website, and most of them are newbies. So earlier if you got 2000 rank in 12000 participants, now even if you get 3000/20000 the delta would be better (i don't know the exact calculation, but it sure feels like the bar to getting a positive delta at any given rating has dropped). And due to this AI stuff, i think the questions have gotten easier as in they don't require knowledge of many concepts or any significant use of data structures. Because i came back to give a contest after months and still fared quite well even though i have forgotten a lot of specifics about the use of different data structures, because the questions were too focused on simple greedy approaches.
I have been participating in contests since 2023 and i feel that questions used to be much harder back then.