Hi, my submissions for round 1028 has been skipped! this is the message I got
Your solution 322239991 for the problem 2116C significantly coincides with solutions Prady/322211648, Siddarth_MSR/322229699, mehul1512/322239991, Rafat_Kabir/322252055, AlterAB/322290280.
However, the coinciding code was already published on GeekForGeeks before commencement of contest- link
pls upvote so I don't lose rating:(
Same :(, hopefully they recheck this.
Both of you have last contest skipped , was that on geeksforgeeks too?
Yes i used the gfg code (which was published before the round) for solving C and some other people used the se article to solve it too.
We are talking about that contest only btw, i dont understand what you mean by "too".
he's talking about the contests you participated in before this contest
which contest are you talking about? this is the first one I got skipped on
I know, I'm just saying that another person was talking about that :)
He said that "you have last contest skipped". How can he possibly be talking about contests which Siddarth_MSR has participated in before this contest, if this is his first skipped contest?
Bro, the same has also happened to me, but my round got skipped. I used gfg for Trie code, same the other 2 contestants.
What happened in our case was that the one who solved it first got a negative delta rest were considered out of the contest. It was of Educational Codeforces Round 157 (Rated for Div. 2)
The first one who got a negative delta, were his submissions still skipped, or did he get a negative delta due to his actual performance?
We all got skipped and removed from the standings except him, and his solved problems became 0 and got a negative delta $$$-218$$$.
Same here.. MikeMirzayanov please look into it and unskip our submissions.
Even a newbie like me knows that you should add the source link in the comments if you're reusing code published before the contest :/
No such thing is mentioned in the rules. Anyways they use some automated plagiarism detector, so I think even if we paste the link it would still mark it as plagiarised.
I guess that, the codes are skipped not because of the common geekforgeeks part, but the similar main functions. The usage of the same template and the similarity of the main functions makes it suspicious.
In that case as well, I can argue that I had used this template in past contests as well. So technically that template code was also published, on Codeforces itself (in my submissions). Also, this type of main function is regularly used by many people so I doubt that the plag detection is due to that.