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New "Cheater Exposed" blogs are getting on my nerves.
By tdpencil, history, 4 years ago, In English

What the title says.

Like honestly, if you want them to learn their lesson, don't make a post about how justice is served and acting like Seryu Ubiquitous, report their submissions or message the contest administrators about cheating in the contest. Cheaters wondering why their plagiarized submissions are skipped every contest and they don't know why will probably be impacted more than making a post and giving them a platform to make excuses.

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4 years ago, # |
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Honestly I think the blogs are probably one of most effective things you can do (and at the current rate I don't mind them too much, there's not much else usually on recent page, and they're kinda fun to read). While each individual blog probably does little, I would assume the threat of public shaming becoming more popular would deter people, but perhaps I'm wrong.

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    Do you really care some xyz user cheated in some abc contest?

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      But that xyz user would be now deeply very shamed and vulnerable seeing that his name is in the public blogs

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I think we should make a blog filter which hides the blogs having words like "exposed", "cheat", etc.

I really don't want to see these blogs anymore. They just spoil my mood.

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I hadn't been on Codeforces for a good few months and opened it up yesterday to check out some blogs. Half the recent actions were about some random people cheating, usually not even on Codeforces. It's extremely off-putting and I don't get how people are not tired of these. Would be great to have them in a separate section, as they add absolutely nothing of value and are really only interesting to people who know the individuals.

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4 years ago, # |
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These blogs are more annoying than cheating :(.

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Writing a blog that actually provides value and teaches the community takes time and effort and is probably why we don't see them too often. Thus, apart from the contest announcement posts, all we usually have are joke or cheating blogs. I agree it's tiresome, but it's nothing that can't be ignored.

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Make separate blogs section for indians and for normal people

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