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Why a lot of newbies spend their time trying to catch someone cheating instead of solving problems?
By gm68, history, 4 weeks ago, In English

I really dont understand why a lot of newbies try to catch someone cheating and report it to everyone every round? Why do they care?

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they get a lot of contribution points

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complitly agree with u, cheaters dont change rating they receive

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As a newbie who only write blogs about cheaters, to farm contribution.

Also, what would you do when you saw 50% of the participants higher than you are cheaters? Scream? So, it's not wrong for users to post blogs about cheaters.

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    Suspecting cheaters will NOT increase your rating, so why you just spend your time doing this instead of doing something like solving/upsolving problems? "Also, what would you do when you saw 50% of the participants higher than you are cheaters?" — well I will continue solving problems and improve my skills -_-

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My main account is 2100 rated.(In fact, this account(jerrywang0916) does not belong to me. I borrowed it from my classmate to post blogs about cheating)

I write blogs to expose cheaters, simply because over 30% of the participants ranked above me are cheaters in every contest.

I hope the ratings will be roll back and recalculate.

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    Small correction, WE all hope.

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    Damn, bro 30% is really a big number for your level, then I am probably cooked bro, I thought cheaters are minor in number and doesn't really make difference, ahhh damn man! that hurts!

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    but how could u be sure that there are a lot of cheaters , maybe there are just good ? (i am just asking)

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      After each run of the plagiarism detection system, my ranking rises by 50 to 80 places. My original rankings are generally around 150th in Div.2 contests and 450~500th in Div.1 contests.

      In 2026, I can solve an average of 5 to 6 problems in Div.2 contests, while I could solve an average of 4 problems in 2024 December. After a one-year break in 2025, I returned to Codeforces, yet my rating has barely changed.

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Yeah this is a serious problem by it you can never be get at top in any contest

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Open a problem -> Oh my god it's too difficult -> Oh my god so many people solved the task -> there must be people cheating -> catching cheater.

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They can't raise their ratings and are angry at those who succeed. xd

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    Ya, they're just tooooooo jealous (like me, who has only about 200 in ranking, and my classmate has about 650 (on Atcoder OF COURSE)).

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      Work on yourself, learn algorithms, solve problems in the gym and improve your rating. Envy is a disgusting quality that will not lead to anything good.

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So that Codeforces doesn't end up like LeetCode.

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Contribution farmers

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because cheaters make the game very hard ... some times like last educational round newbies need to solve 4 problems to just became a pupil , Is this normal ?

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really, 90% of programmers who came here for solving problems dont care about cheaters

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