An open letter to community: Why and How cheating happens and why its so hard to stop

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Someone cheating in an online contest you are taking part in the internet != someone coming to kill you.

First one is not an emergency. It can be solved by lazy propagation.
Second one is an emergency. It should return a “assassination attempt” flag and trigger your “lizard brain” and “adrenalin” and force you to act in a fight or flight situation.

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You’ve mentioned ur profile that you’re from India… But you ranked according to the country Bhutan … For some free codechef laddus or is it glitch ? @admin

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I have reported using my mail to help@codechef.com. I don’t understand why people are copying code as if this is a placement drive.

Your progress is not measured by ratings in CodeChef instead it is by your skills and knowledge growth.

Codechef long are good for practice and some algorithmic knowledge.
But if you want to excel in DSA you need to practice topic wise too.
Ultimately this thing is like mathematics where you need to practice on each topic instead.

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Cheating cannot be stopped. The only way to resolve this is to start new rating system for short and long contest .More emphasis has to be given on short contest ratings .

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I agree with this.

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Had to work extremely hard to earn my 0 laddus! I am at least glad that I am motivating you people to create fake accounts just to “expose” my laddu scam!

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See the techniques people use to avoid being caught
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/35390650

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Absolutely Correct
Although Once think that cheating is going on. People are sharing there code of problem 1-5 . Guys belive me all these Questions are too easy. And If you want to be good Coder. Go for the Questions from 6-10 Which actually Carry the level.
Uplift Yourself then you will realise that Cheating is not affecting you and your rating

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Very interesting code. I feel it can be detected too, with some script. Not sure if conventional MOSS can catch it.

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This is the spirit with which I carry on.

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Bro You are 5 Star Coder and believe me cheating will not affect you and your talent.
Yes My spirit is this too

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Stars don’t matter. Many three star coders here are better than me. Also, I don’t look at myself as a “five-star coder”. Next contest I will probably slip back to 4*. If I start participating in a contest and don’t find time to finish all problems, maybe I will be 3*.

What matters is whether or not fun was had, and something was learnt.

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Commenting randomly just to see how it feels like writing after becoming 4* for the first time :wink:

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were you high when you wrote this blog?

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Links :

Youtube channel links, where solution video was published before the end of contests.

This are 4 channel which i had found on youtube.
There would be many other youtube channels going on where solution is been provided.
And have you seen number of submissions for dr chef and dragon den who got full points? :thinking:
Just check it, so that you can get to know weather mass cheating is going or not.

@dardev

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The best solution that I can think of to deal with cheating would be to make LONG unrated. Yes cheating won’t stop but it would definitely reduce. But of course CodeChef won’t do it.

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4* feels like 2* of Div1

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+1e(1e18)

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People are openly copy pasting code, can’t MOSS detect it?
I reported about two users who are copy pasting code blindly since MAY contests.
I wonder why Codechef isn’t looking at these submissions before declaring the final standings.
The users are
https://www.codechef.com/users/pat2302

Just look at their submissions of the past few contests…
You will come to know about the cheating that is going on.

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https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/35578645

Check this solution man!
Now compare with previous one’s of this profile in same problem.