An Idea on how to solve the issue caused in the last contest.

Revision en1, by ChickenInKitchen, 2023-02-13 18:11:58

So I think everyone knows what happened in the previous contest. One of the problems was the same as one of the problems in an old contest. Now, I think this on its own is not an issue as it happens in almost every contest nowadays(maybe not exactly identical but the idea is the same) and if someone has studied that problem before it is fair for them to solve it. The huge issue was that people were mentioning that they have seen the problem somewhere in blogs and comments so people that have not seen that problem before were also informed. I think one idea is to remove the ability of posting comments and blogs during contests. This would have a great effect but it would not stop the cheatings completely. another improvement that can be done is to block the access to previous submissions on old problems THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN SUBMISSIONS during a contest; With this method, people that have solved a problem before can still access it but people that just want to copy paste something can't. Now this does not solve the problem of coincidence with problems on another platform but these are two improvements that I only see pros on and not any cons. Feel free to share your ideas.

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