Is there any way to appeal for a falsely given plagarism flag?

Revision en2, by Kcits970, 2025-06-21 14:45:40

It is common knowledge that the plagarism checker on Codeforces is not perfect, as it sometimes gives out false positives. I happen to be one of the few victims of such falsely given flags.

About 6 months ago, I received a message from Codeforces saying that my submission to this problem is too similar to somebody else's submission, and all of my submissions for that contest got skipped. For context, I solved 2 problems (A and B) in that division and got negative delta (-23 points).

I tried writing an appeal here, but I never got a proper response from anyone. To this day, my profile displays a history of one skipped contest, because of the false plagarism flag.

On some contest announcements, I see people calling out the problemsetter for being a cheater, because he/she has a history of some skipped contests. It seems like to the general audience, having skipped contests is equivalent to being a cheater. I hate the fact that this false plagarism flag has the potential to ruin my profile and label me as a cheater, when I am a legitimate player.

I want to know if there is any way I can appeal for this matter. I do not want a false plagarism flag ruining my profile.

Tags plagarism, cheating

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