Be fast than cheaters!
I’m sorry if this sounds rude, but this is only possible way to avoid it. I was also at your place sometime, and it feels real bad, but as until CodeChef is not bringing MOSS back, this is the only option (except making all contests unrated).
So many plagiarisms for the Magical flip problem in august starters. Please look into it.
I was not able to completely solve that problem so I looked into the solutions after the contest and all the solutions I saw even have the same comments and same variable names. I checked around 20 solutions and there were 100% same not a single dot difference. @digon
Absolutely correct , from the past few months i solve decent amount of problems in div 2 rounds but I was not getting rank high enough because i was slower than this cheaters but Today i solved the third problem faster than the cheaters and secured a good rank to be able to reach 4* for the first time and it feels so good I don’t know what this cheaters get or what are they trying to prove but from now on I won’t get distracted by this losers and keep on working hard to be ahead of this cheaters. Don’t let this cheaters get in your way!
I have read many opinions here of higher-rated programmers where they say, one should not focus on the cheating aspect and instead work hard and try to improve. Cheating frustrates those people more whose rankings are affected the most (i think it’s lower to middle range of ratings where cheating is happening more). I guess, most of those higher-rated programmers might not have the same opinion if high level of cheating was happening at their rating range.
While I agree, it is not a bad thing to tell people to focus on one’s own skill development, it is also not a good situation if cheating is so convenient and rewarding.
Contests have a value, also because there is a rating/reward system attached to them among other aspects. When cheating increases, the perceived value of the rating decreases, and with it, maybe the motivation to attain a higher rating decreases for a lot of people.
Having said that, I don’t know how to rate the current state of CodeChef. It’s not absolutely terrible but it does seem bad for sure. Something must be done to make plagiarism difficult, or people will move to other platforms where the rating has a higher value. And if, codechef get’s a bad rep among the companies that value these ratings and stars for their hiring process, then that’s a really bad place to be in.
Too much plagiarism involved, @admin do somthing.
I was not even able to solve 2nd problem and seeing the submissions over there made me feel like a fool.
After the recent codechef starters 10, I was upsolving the questions that I found difficult for me and was unable to solve during the contest and surprisingly while just checking the successful submisssions for that problem, I found many of those solutions were the exactly same.
I don’t know how they get the solutions during the contest , may be there is any website or any telegram group. But this is very bad that people only try to get good ratings my any means.
I know i am not the first guy to point this out but do something for this CC.
Hi, inspite of my giving the video evidence, no action was taken against the guy (trivedi2u) leaking the solution. Let alone his youtube channel, even his codechef profile has not been taken down till date. Is codechef even serious about conducting contests and fair ratings?
I’d say let’s boycott codechef and all their future contests until they show some desire to work for their own community. There are plenty of other platforms, who value their audience, rather than being ignorant.
Cheaters like trivedi2u (who is at 1794, i.e. just at the verge of becoming 4*) and several others, who might have reached even 4* or 5*. This is even a disgrace to others who have worked hard on their way to have reached this rating.
Guys let us collectively boycott codechef till they show that they value us. Even for practicing, let us shift to other platforms. Afterall it is us which make it the platform it is, not the other way around. Let us collectively move to other platforms, till any positive action is taken in this direction.
Let them have the cheaters they want so bad, that they are unwilling to take any actions on.
Some people have posted the solutions of codechef september long challange on some websites , why people keep posting solutions , they making coders handicaped/demotivated .pls don’t do these stuffs . we don’t need solutions (fake stars) eventually we have to learn concept (aaj nahi toh kal ) @codechef @no_cheat
I spent like 4 hours on one of the problem, while a person i know just copied it from youtube in 10mins. I stand with you on this matter. cheating is awful
I checked to see the approach of the correct solutions and I noticed that all the solutions submitted by various candidates today were the exact same ones. Cheating on this scale is totally not fair to people who have been giving it their all for the last 5 days and still getting WA on one test case and these cheaters copying the solutions and getting the question done in one try.
This is really disappointing.
I noticed change in acceptance from 0.3 to 12 on day 3 itself.
Some haven’t even changed comments.
This was my first contest and I hate how bad the condition is here.
Exactly, and especially today during the final hour of the contest, more than 200 solutions were accepted. a question that had 1600 correct solutions in 9 days got 200+ correct solutions in one hour, I mean wow… and all of them are the exact same solutions line by line.
I already wrote in my previous blogpost here, what would happen in this contest …
We would be given 7 problems(DIV-3)
HERE are the solutions that were leaked as already mentioned before
Here are the leaked images(THERE WERE MANY OTHER SOURCES ): —
These are the free ones… Not including the paid ones
ALSO THERE IS A WEBSITE THAT DELETED ALL THEIR SOLUTIONS AS SOON AS THE CONTEST ENDED
The sixth problem was solved by about 10 people in Div-3 and 40 people in Div-2 . Hence it doesnt have any leaked solutions…
So , for someone who gives the contest seriously HAS to solve the 6th problem so that his/her rank is not affected by this cheating which is really very difficult for any beginner who has started just a few months or even years ago… Hence I seriously dont understand what should we do !!!
What are the point in organizing these contests and investing so much money and resources in organizing them ???
THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR THE LAST 1 YEAR AND NO ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN
Till this it is fine… But this contests has become a buisness for some people… Some were asking Rs 50(about 0.7$) per problem in Youtube & Telegram per user… In fact some were even offering CP classes by giving there number etc…
I SERIOUSLY THINK CODECHEF SHOULD STOP CONDUCTING THESE CONTESTS … BECAUSE MOSTLY PEOPLE(in india especially) HAVE TURNED THIS STARS AND RATING INTO BUISNESS AND SELLING CODES. IT’S A SHAME AND CODECHEF SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS…!!!
I don’t think that stopping the contests is the right solution. Contests and competitive environment is what all CP is about! Perhaps CC can give more punishment to cheaters and can run plag checker more frequently. Unfortunately it is very easy to overcome plag check. Cheaters always have an upper hand 
(Sad but true reality) All you gotta do is to solve problems even more quickly before the solutions gets leaked.
Let those people cheat. They aren’t gonna get any benefit from it. Idk how can someone even cheat and not feel guilty about it.
Who cares about dumb people paying money to other dumb people to get the solutions of the simplest questions in a Div3 contest in an online competition? If you do the questions yourself, you’ll be able to do it faster than others who are waiting for a solution.
Here is the Links to the YouTube videos of different questions which are uploaded during the contest -
Link of the Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJ-jSDprxhSXQaSaxPVoTA
One Video has even uploaded 2 weeks ago.
@admin Please look into this matter.
I noticed something weird during today’s contest. Uptill 11:30 around 100 submissions were only made to the question PAIRDIST in Sept CookOff Div-2 and by 12:30 around 1100 submissions are made with the accuracy of around 70%.
I am just writing this Discussion to know that is this normal or is Something fishy here?
@admin Please look into this matter.
PS-
Till the time, contest is finished.
Here is the Link of the YouTube video of the question which was uploaded around 11:45PM -
Link of the Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJ-jSDprxhSXQaSaxPVoTA
Link of another post revealing about various such activities- https://discuss.codechef.com/t/various-youtube-videos-being-uploaded-during-the-contest/94609
