Every Codeforces round has a lot of people working behind the scenes coordinators, testers, translators, and more. They do an amazing job to make the rounds smooth and enjoyable. But still, one important thing feels missing: there’s no team dedicated to handling cheating.
Cheating has sadly become more common. And right now, if someone notices suspicious behavior, they can only report it and hope something happens making people feel unheard.
I think it’s time Codeforces adds a small team whose only job is to handle cheating complaints and check suspicious submissions during and after the contest. Just like we have testers and translators, we could have a few volunteers who are passionate about fair play. They can help run plagiarism checks, look into complaints quickly, and communicate clearly about what’s happening.
There are so many people in the community who would love to help with this. Many would even volunteer their time for free, just to keep contests clean and fair. Even a small team just 3 to 5 people working round by round would make a big difference.
More importantly, having such a team would make honest users feel heard and respected. It’s not just about punishing cheaters it’s about protecting the effort and hard work of everyone who competes fairly.
Codeforces already does a lot to bring people together through contests. Adding a team to protect fairness would show that we care just as much about trust as we do about great problems and challenges.
I really believe this step would make Codeforces even stronger, and make contests more enjoyable for everyone.
TL;DR: Codeforces should create a small volunteer team (3–5 people) dedicated to handling cheating complaints and checking suspicious submissions during and after contests. This would help protect fairness, make honest participants feel heard, and strengthen trust in the platform, just like testers and translators already support contest quality.
Another issue is that even if you report a cheater in a blog/comment, the cheater will either take a while to get banned (usually over a week) or never get banned. An official report feature would help this issue and also eliminate the clogging caused by the amount of cheater blogs
Why doesn't Codeforces create its own compiler/IDE that runs in full-screen mode during contests? If someone tries to exit full-screen, they could receive a warning, and if they attempt it again, they would be disqualified. The community should develop such an IDE, including features like a snippet manager and other tools to help cp people.
it's just my opinion ;)
"Why doesn't Codeforces create its own compiler/IDE that runs in full-screen mode during contests" — too inconvenient.
maybe will not work..!
Forcing everyone to use an IDE is just not a good idea, especially when most people have spent their CP career using their editor of choice with carefully calibrated extensions, settings, and snippets. What do you thing would happen if codeforces said "everyone has to use sublime now"?
It's OK to use old codes in CF's contest.I've written many templates and created my debug library
But forcing the competitors not to use old codes is also OK.This needs to change a lot
Definitely not... I'd probably leave cf if that was implemented
Besides, it only blocks the dumbest cheaters (which is still a lot) but I don't think it's worth it when there are many other ways to filter the dumbest cheaters without punishing legitimate users so much...
It won't help. They can still cheat by using another device to ask AI, or something else. Also it may cause great inconvenience to normal participants.
I like this idea
Hoping some contest organisers try this out!
I mentioned about this solution and I think it's the best solution, someone said it may take some money and codeforces is non-profit organisation , but you pay the problemsetters right? If needed pay some of those money to anti-cheating team too
Let's start