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By cute_hater, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

Undoubtedly, you should check editorial if you can't cope with the task for a long time. But I'm wondering how important is reading it after you solved some problem yourself. As for me, I usually look through editorial, if I couldn't manage with the task in ~30-40 minutes or if I wrote some heavy implementation to check if there was some easier approach. In 70% of cases my solution is very like the author's one, but sometimes there is a pretty different idea, and it's great to learn some other methods which can be used in this task.

What's your opinion about it?

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By cute_hater, history, 5 years ago, In English

Hello codeforces!

Today I want to talk about bad comments to the announces of rounds.

Maybe I'm too dull, but I really don't understand people who write comments like "I hope to become an expert this round" or "I wanna get high rating" (fortunately, "Is it rated?" has gone out of fashion).

Discussing problems (certainly, after the end of the contest) is excellent: it helps you and other participants to solve the problem or understand it better. Writing jokes related to a contest or to other comment is okay cause they may amuse some people. But comments like "Hope to get plus too rating" are stupid. They are useless and irritating. Nobody is interested what colour you hope to be or how long you haven't written contests.

Let's not pollute CF by useless trash. Thank you for understanding.

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