I'm new to Codeforces, and I've been wondering the past few days how Codeforces got so popular. Does anybody know how?
Thanks in advance!
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Does anybody know? So far people just keep changing my contribution XD
Ever since I've been on Codforces, I keep learning contribution the hard way... it keeps going down. :( XD
Really curious to know how your contribution fell so hard.
My first two blogs... I had to delete them because people kept downvoting. Why is Codeforces's community like this. My first blog was if I could get help on rating, contests, etc. Got downvoted a lot. That's why I'm mainly doing baekjoon right now.
If you are not a high rated coder then you should be highly careful before writing blog entries and comments.
That plays a small role. Besides that be sure that you do not ask something that's already "googlable". You can surely google about the contests and rating. Mike has a post explaining in detail how the algorithm works. So, making another blog about it is just redundant.