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Purpose of Cheaters' Database
By _hopefullyme, history, 10 months ago, In English

Recently, we witnessed a good initiative where one can report the user for cheating (either for plagiarism or use of AI) after the holy massacre of rules and ethics in the recent contests. But what on earth was its purpose when no "AI-glorified" users got unrated/banned after yesterday's rating rollback?

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wasn't that the whole point? Since the system is unable to detect it, atleast it is publically visible to everyone including themselves about it ?

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    ,so that action could be taken against. Right?

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      unfortunately no! if system can't detect it ,then they are not going to just trust a random guy that if he says he is a cheater than let's ban him unless you have some proof of him violating the policies.

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Our cheater database is UNOFFICIAL — therefore, we do NOT have the power to ban users from contests, or the platform.

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    Understood. But officially, it must be implemented too. We are currently kind of responding to cheaters like "Hey Gotcha! But don't worry, keep it up".

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      Yeah — but that's not in our hands. If the powers that control Codeforces want to use our database, we will support them. We want cheaters off the platform just as much as you do.

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      We are currently kind of responding to cheaters like "Hey Gotcha! But don't worry, keep it up".

      This isn't really true. People who get caught multiple times do eventually get banned. Pretty frequently, too. If you take a contest from a few months ago and look at everyone who got their submissions skipped, about one in five of these people has since been banned.

      You don't really hear about it because Codeforces doesn't "advertise" how it fights cheaters. But that is not the same thing as inaction.

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        Sir, it goes without saying Codeforces deals extremely well with the plag lovers. But it really hasn't been effective for those who are using GPT and stuffs.

        Take this fool for example R_i_A. Guy is so new to Codeforces he naively submitted a f'king '2100' rated problem in live contest which anyone can point out is sole AI generated. Have a look at the submission:- 322293928

        Honestly I am out of this circus now. As you can see I am not giving contests for quite sometime now. I would rather beg than screwing up my mental health competing among these intelligent folks. Feel free to TL;DR it.

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        in the recent contest, my standings went up by 100, so Codeforces is taking out a decent amount of cheaters (as you say)

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