TL;DR stop making new accounts just to post blogs and post it on your main.
Hello everyone!
I know it has been a while since I ever post a blog. I'm lazy ok? Today I want to tell you what went pretty bad recently: The existence of alts.
There are many type of alts which is being used for different stuffs, but let's put it in a side and talk about the most annoying type for me. Yeah, those unrated alts that appears everywhere, from recent blogs to comment sections.
If I am not wrong then every 1-2 days there would be an alt like that appear and post something like: Asking to be better at topics, talking about CP in india, or other stuffs. But what occur the most? Those who "catch" cheaters.
When EVERY SINGLE CONTEST that ends there would appear a blog that says "Cheater EXPOSED in Codeforces round #XYZ!" or "Google Kickstart round M code LEAKED!" from a random alt created shortly ago, drop a bunch of comments, and then some continue doing their "good" stuffs, some AFK forever.
What do I mean? I did a research about users that have "cheater" in their username (I know there would be a lot of others that don't), and oh my lord there's a lot. (You can do it yourself here.)
So what do they say "catching" cheaters? Not something like "If you want to be better don't cheat next time" but tell you what? They don't stop just there. Everytime someone they catched post a random comment, they jump right in and says "You stupid cheater tryna post comments but we won't forget you ever HAHAHA" or something similar.
Proof? A lot, search it by yourself, but if you are lazy so here's one.
It's really annoying that people who cheated and even those who changed their minds can't live normally at Codeforces and being stomped. I would still say, exposing cheaters are good, and people who cheat should be punished to not doing that at the future.
But why don't you post it on your main?
Are you scared of polluting your main account? Or you think you want to farm upvotes but your blog doesn't deserve to be on your main? Please, be yourself. If you post it in your main account, you will for sure getting more attention right? At least you are something on this platform, not a random alt bullshit that just made 2 hours ago and became a legend at contribution.
Way better right? Everytime I see an alt account that has the Last visit time almost equal to the Register time, I asked myself: Why the hell this account needs to exist anyway? What is the purpose of creating an entire account just to post a blog and boom, gone? I mean, those posts not only don't make an impact on cheaters (They are unrated, and yes, there are too many cheaters), but they make Codeforces recent blogs worse. Don't judge me, just my own opinion. Post it on your main account would be great for you, me and this platform.
Another thing I need to say, if you found a cheater, why ping the contest authors and the creator of this amazing platform for no reason? Why do you ping them? Just to be answered "I will take a look about this, thanks" and you will be happy that you did something big? Not only wasting their time looking at stupid cheaters you caught, but it sounds just dumb. Useless. For real, tryna make a contest author replying to your cheater exposed blog, "for the sake of this community", why? They tried their best at creating problems, make Codeforces better everyday, just to see your blog sake? Think.
Everything I said above is just the "bright" side of those alts sake. I know there are random alts that saying, post stuffs that is "not supportive" to Codeforces (you remember Good_Stone spams?) but I won't go any further since it doesn't even deserve to be here.
I think I made this too long so I will stop here. Just saying I wrote this all freestyled (just to release my anger, not dependent on any other previous posts) so if I say something rude or wrong then sorry, please don't take this seriously.
Be your true self. Get to the main. Solve some problems. Get a life. Don't bother about those cheaters sake, overcome it. You will see your life would be way better :)
Any opinions drop below.
Stay positive mate.
Just a question, are alts disallowed, and if so, do they result in a ban on the main acc if found?
Nice blog btw :)
Lyde can you get me some lemonade :) . Couldn't agree more with this blog, 100% true. There was a time It bothered me a lot (the cheaters),then one day while enjoying scotch (no flex :)) I thought why should I even give a fuck about em, So I moved on.
it's Lyde, not Lemonade :>
It was just a pun :)
you know, melonade is its own kind of drink, made from, well, melon
the pun doesn't work that well ig, but it's fine, I got it ;)
oh didn't know about it, thanks for it buddy :)
This blog definitely deserves attention. Also, here's a bit more words of my opinion on cheating blogs.
Those cheater blogs have become really annoying. These cheaters most likely have low ratings. I would understand if someone who's supposedly high-rated (say, Master or something like that) cheated. However, people call out random Pupils or Newbies for cheating. Why calling them out when they will stay low-rated anyway? Ain't nobody got time for that. Many people, including myself, go to Codeforces to learn interesting stuff, and those quality blogs might as well get buried by the excessive amount of useless cheater blogs, that has absolutely zero effect.
The best way to fight against cheaters, is to get good. That's it. It's the best way possible.
Anyway, I'm glad I was one of those few who able to hear your thoughts on this particular topic, before this blog was posted.
Yeah, There surely comes a time when cheaters don't matter, like you would solve problems much much before they get the solutions, at that point none of them matter.
Waiting for that moment :-(
There will be no more cheaters (perhaps) if cf delete
Rating system
"Get a life" LoOoooOoooOL You just wrote this blog, do you think you have a life? LMAO oh, and imagine wanting and telling other people what they should do. Not like anyone's complying with you, dumbfuck. Stop sharing what others should do. They will do whatever the fuck they want. Just shut up, and mind your own business, which is what you tell to others by a blog instead of following it, idiot.
you're like LanceTheDragonTrainer but at least LTDT used logic
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You better use your official account to comment, rather using alt accounts to act like a dog , retard.
Reading comments, I think we actually might need a report button for some type of dudes.
Some kind of filter settings will also be a good option, similar to what we have on codeforces talks.
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No. This is wrong. Codeforces not enforcing the rule strictly doesn't mean it's allowed.
Read Question 6 of the FAQ.
The worst thing about these cheater blogs is how their titles are always so clickbaity and ridiculous, like "DIRTY CHEATER blahblah123123 EXPOSED for CHEATING In round 234. TREMBLE before FEAR for you shall never know peace again as long as I guard codeforces from these PITIFUL losers who prevent DESERVING ones from reaching their FULL POTENTIAL. YOU SHALL BE A LIFELESS HUSK DRIFTING IN AN ENDLESS ABYSS!"
The other thing that annoys me is when the alts say they are red or whatever on their real account while the content of the comment suggest otherwise.
these bloggers should work as thumbnail creators(don't know if this exists) or advertisers for that matter if they are really so good at making clickbait titles for stuff.
maybe they are just building the portfolio
As a person, who wrote two blogs about cheaters, I totally agree with this blog!
If serious, this is really a great blog. Maybe we need to update blogging rules? For example, one can write blog only if he/she is rated.
Also, I think, that we don't have blogs like "Help in problem 123". I think, it would be great to implement an independent section, where people can ask such questions. Now only people with, for example, 1400+ rating will be able to write blogs. To my mind, this will be good, because it will free blog section of useless blogs and questions, but there will remain a possibility to ask questions.
Now only people with, for example, 1400+ rating will be able to write blogs
R.I.P. sus 2021-2021
I agree partially on this point of view. And I say partially because i feel that there are a number of situations where people with relatively low rating have 'contributed' to the community positively (in some degree or another). Then, probably, one might say that there should be a system where people need to first gain authority to publish some article, which given codeforces' current infrastructure, is impossible (e.g. the queue for contest proposals).
But, Codeforces already has implemented a system that filtrates the ""bad content"", and it is in every user's settings tab:"Hide low rated posts". And even though this system doesn't filtrate well (because some users might just downvote posts for trolling reasons), it does a pretty good job in keeping your "latest posts" tab clean of stupid posts.