Should January Lunchtime be Rated?

abhishek_2007 · January 30, 2021, 8:00pm

@admin in cookoff when I saw server error not solved till 10:30 i shut down my pc when I know that now being declared as rated then I came back , now my rating dropped, to coverup that I put my best today but being undeclared so unfair. make lunchtime rated or cookoff unrated.

tfue · January 30, 2021, 8:01pm

@admin why not tell this between the contest after three hours of brainstorming you say contest is unrated wtf

nikhilnagrale2 · January 30, 2021, 8:07pm

I faced much more issue in last half hour before that it was okay Ish.

tarun_6699 · January 30, 2021, 8:22pm

Please make this contest rated.

george_ogden · January 30, 2021, 8:29pm

It has clearly been the same for everyone during the contest, which allowed some people to think creatively and work on other problems while waiting for submissions. There was no warning that it would be unrated so it’s disappointing to spend 3 hours working hard in a competition and then all your hard work go to waste. Hopefully, the admins can reconsider.

ashishgup · January 30, 2021, 8:33pm

I don’t think unrating a contest makes the experience better for anyone. It just makes the overall contest fair, because if there is a good enough ratio of contestants who suffered, or even a majority who could not see their verdicts for so long, it just does not make sense for the contest to be rated.

Because the queue issues started at 11:15pm, and piled on to the very end of the contest. When the contest ended, the submissions from 11:30 hadn’t been judged for quite a few problems/users - thus we had to make it unrated at the very end, sorry :((

The detailed description of the decision is here for anyone interested.

tarun_6699 · January 30, 2021, 8:35pm

@admin Please Please Please Please make it rated

nikhilnagrale2 · January 30, 2021, 8:48pm

hd_hitesh · January 30, 2021, 8:54pm

Make it Rated. Or make cookoff unrated too.

tarun_6699 · January 30, 2021, 9:01pm

Very True

king_of_string · January 31, 2021, 3:49am

@ashishgup why don’t you hire better engineers for the website? In your last intern hiring, i did the development round as well. The website i made was extremely stable using many backend techniques to reduce server load and everything.

I don’t know why your hiring people rejected me , and i respect their opinion but they are not doing good at the moment right? As someone, who created a local OJ for a project. I was much experienced at these things and would have found or maybe help find some way to resolve these things.

But anyways, hope to see codechef back in the OJ game again.

If not, maybe in coming years, i would start an OJ of my own, maybe a little less fancy…but more stable

ssrivastava990 · January 31, 2021, 3:52am

Hey , ashish gupta is admin not the owner of CC or unacademy .

krishna_kc · January 31, 2021, 3:54am

I don’t remember seeing a vote for making unrated contest rated in the little time I was here. The very act of creating the poll shows how much the participants want it to be rated , please consider this @admin Also , if this poll can be made a part of the announcement or something so that everyone can see it after opening the site, everyone would be able to vote. I believe this issue deserves a vote.

lpavanvenkat · January 31, 2021, 4:15am

@admin @ashishgup I think making the contest rated will make experience better because everyone gave there 100 % at least for the first 2 hours of the contest and people do expect a long queue while participating in codechef contest and it is what it is.There are two sides to it a person who didnt do contest well will want the contest unrated while a person who did well will want it be rated , so i personally feel the contest should be rated.

faizmarif · January 31, 2021, 5:13am

Please make it rated. I did 4 out of 6 and I am only 6 points away to become a 4 star. Please please please make it rated.

rijusougata13 · January 31, 2021, 5:25am

so why didnt you just give us extra 30 min like cookoff…in cookoff it was worser than lunctime and you just gave 30 min extra and remain it rated…why didnt you do same thing in lunctime!.
i agree someone faced problem in cookoff and someone in lunctime…
so either make both of them rated or make both of them unrated

seemant0766 · January 31, 2021, 6:27am

everyone is facing same issue… i don’t think it is required to unrate the contest… Cook-off also have same issue but it was not unrated.

tarun_6699 · January 31, 2021, 9:29am

@admin please make lunchtime rated

aktgb_31 · January 31, 2021, 10:08am

people who got negative delta can improve later, but the last 30-40 mins shall not ruin the people who performed good for first 2 hours.

avichal9314 · January 31, 2021, 10:10am

Two contests, cookoff and lunchtime, same thing happened for both, @admin made one rated, one unrated according to god knows what logic.
Official statement for Lunchtime by modertor: It just makes the overall contest fair, because if there is a good enough ratio of contestants who suffered, or even a majority who could not see their verdicts for so long, it just does not make sense for the contest to be rated.

When asked: What about cookoff then?
Moderator be like: Hamara platform, hamari marzi, jo mann me aaega, krenge This makes very much sense, isn’t it? slow claps

Two conclusions, either one out of these is definitely true:
1. Codechef doesn’t give a shit about the platform users (Unacademy is funding, life set hai)
2. Applying contest ratings for Lunchtime is practically impossible for
incompetent codechef employees (handle hi nhi ho rha traffic)