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HELP! RANKED ~400 IN LAST DIV. 4 ROUND BUT DISQUALIFIED DUE TO CHEATING???
By Alii, history, 2 years ago, In English

Hello,

Yesterday was my first time solving all questions in a round, and I was able to rank among the top ~400 (~90 officially) contestants. When the ratings came out, I was shocked because I found out I was DISQUALIFIED DUE TO CHEATING. I was supposed to get a positive delta but I found that I got a negative delta of 144, and I became a newbie. What's most surprising is that the solution my submission is supposed to coincide with does not by any means "coincide" with my solution. Here's my submission 175959376 and that's the other submission 175924333. As you can see, there is no "significant coincidence" and I don't like the fact that I literally did all my best in a round but all that effort was worthless because of something I did not do.

Please help me by upvoting. I hope this post reaches MikeMirzayanov.

Update: I got my rating back and a positive delta of 191. Thank you for everyone who helped<3

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mesanu flamestorm MikeMirzayanov Please help!

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The message I got:

Attention!

Your solution 175959376 for the problem 1742D significantly coincides with solutions 0x4c/175924333, alitarekkk/175959376. Such a coincidence is a clear rules violation. Note that unintentional leakage is also a violation. For example, do not use ideone.com with the default settings (public access to your code). If you have conclusive evidence that a coincidence has occurred due to the use of a common source published before the competition, write a comment to post about the round with all the details. More information can be found at http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/8790. Such violation of the rules may be the reason for blocking your account or other penalties. In case of repeated violations, your account may be blocked.

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lots of people faced the same problem, I think the cheating detector mechanism on CodeForces should be updated as some problems have such a specific solution like this one for example; if we consider it by this criteria then all the solutions will be considered duplicates.

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    Exactly. I believe like 90% of the submissions for problem D will have significant similarities, but the fact that many people got dismissed for something they did not do discourages most of us.

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Yes, you are right.
The solution for the problem D was same by almost everyone.
Sometimes the innocent people get plag and the cheaters get escaped.

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any updates?

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What I see is that all the solutions for problem D are very close, so it doesn't make sense that your solution is counted as a cheated solution, I hope your problem will be solved soon and you get a positive delta as you deserve for your great work in the contest

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    I got it back, finally. Thank you bro I wish you all the best<3

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Update: ratings have been changed and I got my positive delta back! Thank you for the upvotes and the support<3333

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