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Major Issue in Contests | People Plagiarising Solutions Through Hacks
By Queue, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

I got a mail from Codeforces regarding that my solution matches with some other solutions for round 1786 A2. After checking those solutions I was shocked that they were exactly my solution. I think that most probably someone who solved A2, locked their solution then opened mine and shared it on some shady group. Being expert for around 6 months now, it would be messed up if I start plagiarising during contest and that too A2 ?! I am attaching my solution and the others, please look into it; I dont want the contest to be unrated for me and more importantly I dont want innocent people like me to suffer due to some -200 IQ moves by someone.

My Submission

Plag Solution 1

Plag Solution 2

Plag Solution 3

Plag Solution 4

Thank you for taking out the time to read this, I hope the truth prevails in the end.

MikeMirzayanov Please have a look into this

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Usually when this happens it's because of someone unknowingly leaking code through ideone so I must ask you: Do you use ideone or any online IDE?

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    I have been using Visual Studio Code for >= 6 months now

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Hi!

I saw the solutions and the submission time(~1 hour from the start of the contest), so someone who locked his/her submission before 1 hour MAY be the culprit.

You can check yourself, in your Room#86, two people submitted locked before 1 hour, No. 5 and No. 15. Hope it helps!

Regards

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You can check other people's solutions if you've locked your own problem? This feature should be banned!

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    This is for you to hack other people's solution. Note that you cannot copy the solution tho

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It's easy to see that there soulution just change nothing or little things and there submission time is later than you,so I think you can chat to MikeMirzayanov to ban them .

Wish I can help you.

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    What is wrong with you? How does your question relate to the topic?

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