I am writing this blog from my alt forking. On 21 September, my main account daemonfork got banned after the Codeforces Round 1122 (Div 3).
Initially, I honestly thought it was a false positive because I didn't know that taking hints would trigger a ban. This was only my 3rd contest and my first time making an account here, so I didn't fully understand the policy. I knew copy-pasting a whole solution was an instant ban, but after reading and understanding the full policy today, I realize now that taking hints is exactly what caused this.
Because of this misunderstanding, I got into a serious conversation with Um_nik in the contest blog earlier link to comment. I want to sincerely apologize to him for getting defensive and replying out of frustration. I was just stressed about the ban and hadn't realized my mistake yet.
I took mini hints on a few problems, but I really tried to write the actual code based on my own understanding. I have definitely learned my lesson about how strict the system is and what happens if you cross that line. I just need one chance to prove I can do this right, and I promise it won't happen again.
Tagging the admins and moderators to please re-evaluate the verdict and consider unbanning my account for a newbie mistake. MikeMirzayanov, KAN, Vladosiya, cry, WorldWarV
I got my account siriexo disabled too but good thing I've got a video of me winning the contest from start to finish
Great idea, will use this approach afterwards just wanted my acc to be acitvated again :(
Curious how you solved G in 5 minutes and why you did 2 different solutions for F1 and F2 when submitting F2 to both would work?
The video is sped up, so the apparent 5 minutes isn't the actual time spent on G, it took me longer and I also happened to already know the underlying idea which made it much quicker to solve
For F1/F2, I treated them as separate problems while solving. My F1 solution was the straightforward approach I came up with first while for F2 I derived a different approach that I thought was more appropriate for the harder constraints
I generally do this with Easy/Hard version problems because I like treating the harder version as a separate challenge rather than simply extending my Easy solution
Except I'm not talking about the video taking 5 minutes. I'm talking about you taking 5 minutes to solve G. Given the time on the timeline of your submissions. Also, your reasoning for F1/F2 makes zero sense. If you actually knew what you were doing, you would just solve the hard problem since it will pass the easy problem as well. The only thing that changed is constraints.