Due to some technical issues, we have realized that many of the emails that we intended to send to users for plagiarizing in the 6 contests, as mentioned in the below table, weren’t received. Hence, these users did not get their appeal phase and had their ratings dropped before they could appeal their case. We sincerely apologize for that.
We are now resending those emails and are reopening the appeal phase for these 6 contests.
I have received a mail stating that I have plaigarised in CodeChef Starters 30 Division 1, Problem A. The solution of the problem is to sort a string and then print it. Now why would you even run a plaigarism test on such a problem is beyond me but the issue here seems to be that the template of both of the users is the same. My template is publically available with one of the sources being codechef’s submissions itself!(publically viewable after every contest). I expect that this will get cleared up.
Hi all - I am new in codechef. I started doing contests around a month ago. Today i got a mail about my solution being similar to one other contestant. And yes i agree my code is somewhat similar. But the real issue is the problem in which i got plagiarised is a simple problem with direct approach with couple of lines of codes. Hence, chances of similar codes. So, in this case there should not be any strict plagiarism code of conduct.
START36D division 4, was my 2nd contest in codechef (1 star coder). I can’t actually explain much.
I just want to know how come there is zero possibility of few lines of code not being similar when there are around 10,000 users attempting it. I think that this Anti-Plagiarism should not be used for atleast Div 4 problems(mainly for simple codes) as there is high chances of similarities.
I have also replied The Chef in the mail about it. Hope i get justice.
Below are the codes that got plagiarised. (my code and someone named @anon55306107 kt0601)
I want to know how you succesfully appealed and reverted the false plagiarism accusation. Please let me know. I have already replied to their plagiarism mail but didnt received any reply yet.
Yes, this plagiarism check fails where it should work.
It works only for problems rated below 800 which have 2 lines of code logic where innocents get plagiarised [i m one of them ] .
Such a big platform but still lacks proper anti-plagiarism mechanism and they don’t even respond in mail.
There are 250+ submissions in div 4 starters 39 with the same code for the minimize roadblock problem, this is so unacceptable and unfair for others who don’t cheat and get less rank because of them. Many just change variables or insert random comments or functions between the actual code. No plagiarism for them?
I participated in this contest: Contest Page | CodeChef (Div 4)
The last problem was hard for me, even though I am experienced. What shocked me is that roughly 150 people solved the problem in the last 20 minutes. So I went checking. Rank 303 is the last who solved P7. Rank 303 - 284 have the same answer and are therefore cheats. I had to check 20 people to find the first legit participant.
I also checked the top participants for cheats, I had to check the top 9 to find the first cheater and most likely the source creator for all other cheater.
As you can see the question is very easy and has one line solution. Two people can have the same code. It was just a coincidence. This is a case of false positive. I replied to the mail and requested a manual review but didn’t get a reply.
We are on the same boat buddy.
Same contest same problem but i am plagged with someone else.
I think there are many like us who have been plagged in that PRESENTS problem.
I also wrote a mail. But didn’t got any response yet. @admin please check START36D problem PRESENTS please. And revert our ratings please.