Since when did the recent actions tab got packed with "My account got banned — Request for Review". The problem is, most of them are not even participating seriously (which meant they cheated) and they even ask to get their account back (which is still newbie btw). The only exception I've seen is from a GM asking for a M, who is doing problems by himself. Moreover, most of the blogs on this type look like they are written by AI... I'm literally speechless.

So please, if you are not participate on your own, DO NOT ASK for your account back, the devs aren't idiots and you won't get your account back.

As you can know, now Codeforces only have a boring white theme, and that's it. My opinion is that we should at least give us a choice that can change the theme to dark mode so it could be better for learners that work at night. Even better, I suggest adding a choice where we can customize our background with images!

If you have any idea, write the source in here for me to read them

As a person that has -28 contribution, I'd really want to contribute something to our platform. So, these are some people that I strongly believe that are using tools in the latest round:

tanguyenhaonam — in submission 380758890 and 380754042, they have significant different code format

vid1606 — AI-alike variables in all submissions.

Darshil_Prajapati13 — really suspicious contest timing, spending 2-3 minutes on every problem???

Dharaneswar-Reddy — AI-alike variables, comments in A and pretty fast contest timing.

caramel29 — AI comments in B and E, also spend 1 minute on B,C,D (bruh)

25215a6605 — have AI comments in most of their submissions.

Note that everything above MY opinion, so if you don't agree with my opinions, you can comment in! Thank you!

Also shout out to DuyMinh3005 for helping me find these guys!

Let's have a short comparison:

• One guy spent an hour of his life doing a G problem in a Div2, get a WA in the #67 test case, waste another hour to fix it and get an Accepted.

• Another guy spent $20 for Gemini Pro and get an Accepted in 2 minutes.

Not only this affect the rankings, but also it makes honest participants feel demotivated, and make dishonest participants feel the "rating" becoming useless to them.

So, not just Codeforces but every other CP platforms, please find a way to fix this problem.

Btw, this morning while I was checking the submissions to hack, I found a guy named vid1606 have AI-alike variables in all of his submissions in the latest contest. So, thank you for reading the blog :)

I'm new to Codeforces, and I'm curious if there are any other way than participating in rated contests?

Please don't be toxic, we can be friends :D