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Contribution System: How Does it Work?
By neelm1002, history, 6 hours ago, In English

Hey everyone, A bit of background on me, I opened this account over a year ago but only started doing contests this year in preparation for my first time competing in the British Informatics Olympiad. So, I'm still pretty new to all the niche features on Codeforces.

Anyways on to the actual topic, The contribution system on Codeforces made zero sense to me when i joined so I decided to do some research to help other new comers with how to navigate it. There are 2 top boards on the website, Rating for contest performance and Contribution for interaction with the community. How does it work? I may be mistaken so take this part with a grain of salt. I believe that you receive a +1 contribution for every 5 up-votes you receive and a -1 contribution for every down-vote you receive. Some users, speculate that a higher rank up or down voting affects contribution by a greater magnitude however I couldn't find credible for evidence for this.

Why does it affect you? Companies and other users look at your rating to roughly determine your skill however that doesn't prove you as trustworthy. For that employers, will look at contribution. This could make an impact if you are using your account to prove your talent at an interview such as for a SWE (Software Engineer Position).

Thanks for Reading! Hope you enjoyed!

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what score you get in bio?

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    Not great, i got 28/100. Solved 1A, 1B, and I manually worked out some solutions to 3a and got one mark there. Thanks for up-voting!

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    what are you doing on codeforces, you better score a hatrick tomorrow

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    i am the goat

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I also want to know about the contribution system. If this impact on interview time than I'm in danger cz my contribution is already negative. -.-

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    Lol

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      Did wrote anything wrong?

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        I thought you were just being humurous. Skipped verdict means that his code matches with some other coder's code or could be due to any other reason. in other words it basically says that the person cheated during the contest and so his whole got skipped. You just revealed him :D

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          Oh! I didn't mean to humiliate him.

          Lol

          I really didn't knew this

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            It's fine, I didn't cheat but I did use ideone for the complicated questions that took me a long time to solve and only after that skipped verdict found out that Ideone is public not private and I know that unintentional leakage is still a violation so I've accepted it. Unfortunately, since I didn't know about that setting since I don't know many others doing Competitive Programming, I had to learn the hard way.

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