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.
This is the spirit with which I carry on.
Bro You are 5 Star Coder and believe me cheating will not affect you and your talent.
Yes My spirit is this too
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 
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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? 
Just check it, so that you can get to know weather mass cheating is going or not.
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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)
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.
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/35578645
Check this solution man!
Now compare with previous one’s of this profile in same problem.
+infinity
Totally agreed!
In the bigger picture, there are many categories of people, like people who just enjoy giving contests which everyone does, people who like ratings or are obsessed with it, which most of us are, people who cross lines in order to excel in what was mentioned in the previous point, people leaving longs due to previous category people, etc.
It is quite convincing that “Cheaters gonna cheat” and we should just focus on ourselves and enjoy long challenges. Well its not that I dont want to but still I belong to the 4th category and as matter of facts, now a days longs are causing an increase in the 3rd category.
Note (not from a contestant’s perspective) : The benefits of Longs still exceeds its down sides but the question is for how long, after all the goal for the community was to increase skills in cp and not in something else
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you have wasted a lot of time in writing something which hardly make any sense.It seems like you are saying “Don’t blame government(or police) for crime just change yourself”. make long contest unrated or codechef rating doesn’t have any value. Cheating in short contest is not easy you will loose time.
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Codechef/codeforces/Anyother rating has NO value other than for personal milestone measurements (and maybe a chance to get referral).
When you say codechef long should be unrated, you are basically asking the site to kill a particular contest category.
And yea like I have said, cheating in short contests is super easy.
- Sit down as a team of four/five in the same room during the contest. Code under the same roof. (Actually competitive coding is quite popular as a teamsport)
- Take turns in participating in contests. Two friends sit together and boost one account’s cookoff in June, and then another in July.
Cheaters will use these strategies once long is unrated (if they are already not using).
I think the main reason many are bitter is that, long contests are much easier to progress in than short contests. Here, I agree with you. Hence we should probably have separate badges for separate categories. A person who got to five star with just cookoffs and lunchtimes is likely to be much more skilled than a five star long coder. I agree with this sentiment.
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