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[CHEATING] Punish the Source!
By imtheonly1, history, 3 months ago, In English

No one should share his/her Accepted solution during a live contest.

However, suppose someone shares an accepted solution during the live contest to his friends or public telegram channels. In that case, good people should feed the code to a plagiarism checker[currently we don't have such functionality on codeforces MikeMirzayanov ].

The plagiarism checker will easily find the original author and others who copied the code. It is similar to hacking post-contest, but we submit plags during a live contest here. There should be a reward for the first plag finder.

This will surely discourage solution-sharing during live contests.

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3 months ago, # |
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This is actually a very good idea

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this is a good idea but i don't think the author of the accepted solution shares his orignal code, he must be changing it in some manner which keeps his account clean and keeps away from plag!

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3 months ago, # |
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Now imagine that someone solves a problem during a div2, then they shares the code of someone else from their room. In that case your system will punish an absolutely innocent participant.

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    How will they get the code of someone unless someone has shared it themselves, which is the very thing we want to curb?

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      During a div.2 or div.1 contest, all contestants are divided into rooms, and once you solved a problem you're allowed to see and hack others' submissions on that problem DURING contest

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        sorry, didn't know it was possible to see others' solutions during a live contest. thanks.

        Will it be a disadvantage, if you can only see other solutions post-contest?

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          No, it wouldn't. This suggestion would perfectly work on educational rounds, div3s and div4s.

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