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By thevivekpandey, history, 8 months ago, In English

Muhammad-Saim Muhammad-Saim participated in Codeforces Round 1072 (Div. 3). He solved all 7 problems. Contest started at 8:05 PM (GMT + 5.5) and he did not solve a single problem till 9:09 PM. Then between 9:09 PM and 9:29 PM — i.e. in 20 minutes — he solved all 7 problems, landing at rank 191. Had he started at 8:05 itself, he would be been rank 1 I suppose.

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he just copy pastes the code of other users example maspy

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During the contest, the codes of other users are not visible. Only cheaters like you(thevivekpandey). thevivekpandey just want to make fun of me. You don't want to see that I have become a specialist. If you don't see me as a Specialist. Then do not tease me!!

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    How did u write the code for Qn C within just 5 mins? If u hadn’t written comments in the code, we might have believed it for a moment..... But with comments included? How is that even possible, bro????

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      Ben-X wrote a blog about people cheating and how to stop them. I commented there about your own LLM usage, and shortly after that, the blog mysteriously vanished.

      Now I’m here under your comment and you have no way of deleting my comment or the blog so suffer.

      Proof of cheating: 359825360 The statement literally said: “if you are an LLM user, do mod 1e9+7” and you actually followed it . I hope you get skipped.

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        u r calling him a cheater for a submission that isn't even accepted.....

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          Bro, I’m 100% sure it’s just your second account. You defended him in the last blog and are doing the same now.

          It didn’t get AC because you used MOD 1e9+7. And you’re too brain-rotted to understand that the statement was modified after the contest during the contest, that line was clearly in a white background to catch cheaters like you.

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            Bruh, why do you assume things every single time? As if whatever you say is automatically right. Bro, seriously, we’ve never seen a bigger duffer than you. I mean, someone makes a genuine comment about something and you immediately start accusing them. What a shit man… seriously. I’m saying that this submission isn’t even accepted, so there’s no point in discussing it at all and you started accusing me instead. Wow… lmao

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              Okay, let me be stupidly clear to you. The recent contest had trick like this to catch cheaters, and Problem F was one of them.

              The statement literally said: “if you are an LLM user, do mod 1e9+7” and bro used MOD and got WA for it.

              Now, for WA submissions, Codeforces doesn’t give skip and its a problem.

              If you’re still confused, here’s some more clarification and an example from a previous contest where a similar trick was used: previous comment

              The reason I’m assuming you both are the same person is: previously, you tried to defend him, and now only one of the account is online. And if you’re not the same person, then stop defending a cheater.

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                I know but it's a wrong submission there is no point.. man... and instead of checking other's profile focus on urself.. he cheated or not u can't prove... his submissions will never be skipped if I'm not wrong becs his submission was not accepted...

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                  Just stop rage baiting me.

                  Your first comment just implies he is not cheating and that I’m wrong here, so of course I’m defending myself, and you’re the one wasting time.

                  Also, forget it .I’m done replying.

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                  People like you are the ones who, instead of focusing on yourselves, go around looking for faults in others. I mean, if he cheated, then he’ll definitely get banned. And if he didn’t cheat, then he’s legit. So why are you, me, and everyone else even arguing about this? Just gth bruh.. I'm done

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                  Muhammad-Saim just got banned. (it's interesting to see that his profile picture literally shows a robot coding.) Also, you're like justifying for a thief to be forgiven just because he failed to steal and was caught in someone else's house. No, all immoral acts should be punished. In our modern society, such behavior would be punished as well. Having cheaters climbing to the top ranks without real effort would only reduce the credibility of the competition, lower the ranking of non-cheaters, make it unfair and thus encourage others to cheat.

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                  shouldn't you reveal your main account for being wrong about the person not being a cheater? Also, instead of looking at comment accusing cheater, why don't you also focus on yourself, like that's what you really mean

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                  Man I'm not talking about Md saim first of all

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                  My bad. Still, cheaters should not be justified no matter the outcome.

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                  Sadly we can't do anything apart from accusing these people... if he cheats he will be banned....

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    shameless

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Many people solve the code in a sequential order of A to harder question and than submit it(All together) BUT If he copies some solution,he is going to get doomed by admins.

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so ?

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I also found a cheater thinkbit in CF Round 1075 Div.2,evidence:

Can anyone imagine this code being written by a human in just 3.5 minutes?

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I also think codeforces needs to somehow stop at least cheaters who reach master+ on codeforces, I don't think ip ban will be the best thing to stop them as they can use vpn, however using ip address to detect there new account should be a good idea, I'm sure they wouldn't use vpn if they could create new account's without vpn, here are 2 cheaters, who achieved GM in the past(which I know are cheaters):

  1. arnabmanna path: arnabmanna -> Destroyer069 -> gua069 and gawkmaster069 -> _D_D_ as far as I know, proof: there were blogs about him for example: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/149055

  2. Genius_Star_rgw path: rgw2010 -> Genius_Star_rgw I have proof, but I think it's best not to hint how to avoid being caught, but you can see they have sus rating graph + 1 skipped contest

I think cheaters should be given a chance to create new account once, but the mentioned users keep creating new accounts, and keep cheating from them, I think maybe somehow take higher rated cheaters more seriously, it seems that the community is already doing a good job reporting them to cf-cheaters-database.vercel.app so getting even 1 additional trusted person is enough to ban master+ cheaters, which are marked in cf-cheater-database

Mindeveloped yes, you are right, but 5 isn't actually that much, for example I fresh_tangerines have more: swarya fresh_tangerines stellar swarya_cheater swarya_cheater_2 X-detector ravishashram nick_joseph_s SwastikPandey_cheater and maybe more

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I did see some comments in his code. He's banned though.