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About Round#810
By 555, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

So, round #810 is cancelled because problem E of the Div. 1 was copied from another round intentionally. The blog of the contest is downvoted so much and the author is at the bottom of the contribution. And the round is getting a lot of hate. But the community just started to get too toxic.

First of all, co-outhor of the round, admitted he stole the problem and didn't told anyone about that. Lets assume it is the case. Empathize with Rhodoks, just made a round with a friend, gave a lot of effort, and after the round it turned out that his co-outhor stole a problem, so he is now at the bottom. I mean, what could he do? It is pretty normal that he couldn't foresee this. (As said by a lot of people, it is not unusual to have a same problem with an old round because testers are limited and no one knows all the problems in the community)

Also, i am not defending the author who stole it but, it is not all authors fault. Some people recognised the problem, and just posted it to the comments of the announcement so lots of people got AC and the round is ruined. Other thing is, Div. 2 participants are around saying things like "trash round, wasted my time". And probably bombarding downvote. I want to say that, if Div. 2 E(Div. 1 C) was also stolen intentionally, Div. 2 would also be unrated. But it isn't. Div. 2 is a normal codeforces round with regular flaws like being unbalanced.

My point is, that round still carries a lot of effort guys, don't be so mean. I don't think the author deserved the bottom spot.

UPD

I learned that div. 1 participants have higher weight in upvotes, so I can't say that by looking the number of downvotes. But still there are a lot of comments of Div. 2 people so I think my point still stands.

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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why no action against the div2 round.

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    21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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    Because there aren't any reasons to take action.

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      21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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      Div2E

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        21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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        As i said, if it was intentionally stolen like div1E, they would take action. Probably it is just a normal similarity which happens a lot

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    21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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    seems like you're just salty that you will most probably get -ve delta..

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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deja vu

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21 month(s) ago, # |
  Vote: I like it +78 Vote: I do not like it

Also I do not understand why people think they just wasted their time. There are 6 new problems and you can learn something from them or just enjoy the contest. Is rating change the only thing for writing a contest?

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    21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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    I appreciate you opinion.

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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Div1 people up/downvotes weigh a lot more than div2. iirc gm vote weights like 10.

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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I agree 100% with what you wrote.

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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Actually people with high rating have high weight in voting, it is just that their votes are displayed gradually. It was tested that some high rated users could have up to 10 votes, so actually -3000 doesn't have to be div-2 bombardment.

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Other thing is, Div. 2 participants are around saying things like "trash round, wasted my time".

This is something that seems to happen all the time. Every time there is something legitimately wrong with a contest, there is this contingent of people who start saying that "x is also wrong, y is also reason why this contest is garbage", while in reality these things are at worst just unfortunate and often aren't actually problems at all.

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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To be honest I don't see where he admit it

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