It was over two years ago when I cheated (for the first and last time) on Codeforces. It has been a long time, and over the period of time, many MANY more sophisticated methods of cheating than the one I used (copying code from another) has came out. Nowadays, I still find myself thinking about it from time to time, and today I've decided to come clean.

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It is mightily embarassing for such an occurence to be displayed squarely at the first page of my submissions. If Codeforces allowed for the privating or deletion of submissions, these bozos would have been long gone. But the reality is that unless you are a cheater (or doing some really shady stuff), there is literally no good reason for you to delete your own submissions.

In a way, I am thankful to Codeforces for that. The submissions today mark to me the beginning of my journey into actual Competitive Programming, and more abstractly my personal growth in two years. All the while, perhaps a bit more sentimentally, they remind me of a bygone time when CP was basically the world to me, when I would be excited every other day thanks to some technical blog on Codeforces. It's a bit different now with the added complexity that comes with time.

That might not be the case for the community though. Maybe two years is not enough to prove anything, even if I swear that I have not cheated in another contest ever. Especially now with all the Cultural Revolution-style cheating purges, I might regret having ever come out as an ex-cheater. I just want to get things off my chest first.

Oh well this has been long-winded. Give me your contribution points or whatever