These days, there have been a lot of blog posts about cheaters.
And if you ask me, I'm tired of seeing "Cheater Exposed" and ... whatever blah blah.
Anyways, the number of cheaters is gradually increasing (or maybe just cheaters' reports increased), which could lead to consequences like decreasing the value of Codeforces; a large subset of participants are cheaters and a majority of blog posts are about Cheaters.
Admins really need to take some action about the current situation.
And to those Exposers, Patrols, Clubs, Investigators, Detectives, Hawk-eye and whatever they call themselves(sorry If I missed your "title"):
I'd like to say maybe let's just wait for some admin to take notice, I hope, soon some admin will write about the current circumstances. Maybe let's just let them be them, in my opinion, anyone who has reached a level of CM or even expert is already mature enough that they'll not even think about these things. Most of these people are just stuck newbies/pupils, and what could they even achieve from cheating, trust me, literally nothing. And if you're here just for practice and improvement, you shouldn't really care about these people.
Maybe some people are getting me wrong, by
they'll not even think about these things.
I mean that they'll not even think about cheating.
And that
Most of these people are just stuck newbies/pupils
So this should not affect anybody's rating much.
And even if it does
if you're here just for practice and improvement, you shouldn't really care about these people.
Shouldn't our main objective be practice?
I have delved deeply into codeforces' history over the past 4-5 years, and I've noticed that these types of blogs are not new. There have been numerous blogs exposing cheaters, which primarily target individuals rather than addressing the broader issue. They personally expose the cheater and flood the site with multiple blogs about the same person over intervals of 3-4 months, even if the individual has stopped participating in contests or ceased cheating. This is truly annoying.
That's the point!
I'd agree with everything you said, except the first thing. It's more like there are some peak eras and some peaceful eras but this era has been greater than any past era that I know of.
These blogs are necessary because Cf doesn't have any alternative reporting system.
I think you are immature for not thinking about "these things". I have a lot of friends in the Newbie — Pupil range who are affected by cheating. Just because you are at a rating where it does not affect you much, you will write a blog to not care about it ??
As far as I know, Admins take notice and do look into blogs that report cheating.
It is increasing. And are you suggesting that if we pretend cheating does not exist, it will go away? The people reporting cheating are helping clean up the community and increase its value.
True. I also support exposing all the recent cheaters. My concern is just for people who are being poked since months and/or years also those who were imposed with false allegations by probably alts of the same person.
Bro forgot to use AI to "proofread" his post lmao
Maybe you are immature for thinking about rating.
Rating has a place in this world. To act as feedback and motivator to do better.
Tell me, I have some friends who I got into CP. They went from being unable to solve a single problem to being able to solve AB and sometimes C in div2. Yet even then, their rating doesn't improve, unlike what it would have a year ago. Is that not demotivating for them?
In things like Chess, Cp, rating is a part of the sport. Its harmful if you obsess over them, but you can't not "think about them".
Also, imagine ignoring the rest of my points to just focus on the one part about rating. Cringe behavior.
Perhaps a better solution would be for CF to implement a way to report cheating that does not involve flooding the blogs with cheating posts.
This system already exists. Antiplagiarism check will ban most of cheaters, and if cheating dramatically impact on one's rating, after this check the one will get underrecieved rating. But I never saw f.e. even +20 points after this check, so I guess problem with cheaters taking away rating is overvalued
I thought a good chunk of those skipped in later antiplagiarism checks were also because cheating blogs posted their names publicly -_-
I don't think so. most of these blogs written by newbies/pupils, seems like whining for me (sorry for toxicity, hope I won't get ban because of this comment), so why should we listen to people who prefer posting blogs instead of upsolving and practice?
Well, that is something that can only really be answered by CF admins.
I still advocate for a feature to report a suspicious submission (with some comments for the reasons why), which is kept private and only visible to CF admins.
I know that they won't be able to process all such complaints and many might be fake reports. But still, something is better than nothing.
to avoid fake reports, this feature can be implemented for experts+/cms+, like it is for tagging problems now. but here another problem appear, most of cms+ don't affect by cheating and won't report anyone since they don't care about it. so this feature seems useless)
I think banning the IP address, at least for the cheater live streamer will be better.
no points of ranting just close the recent actions tab and life easy. Someone need to calm (majority)Indian audience till then just focus on yourself.
It's all fun and games unless you're mentioned