Hello Codeforces! I wanted to request something from the codeforces community. To start i need to give some introduction : I couldn't participate in a contest in a time and i just thought of trying to be a tester for the first time then i messaged Hamed_Ghaffari,The writer of Codeforces Round 1124 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round 1124 (Div. 2) that i want the permission to test and he said ok and give me the access without saying anything else. Then i said something very little that i can say it had an epsilon value of effect on the contest and i didn't say anything else. And after some hours i noticed the big mistake i've taken and i tried to fix it. Then i told the story to my new teacher Arpa and he said you first should read some rules and accept them to become a tester and testers were just some special people and the contest writers couldn't invite anyone as testers and some of them even had salary. I want to say that, No one ever told me that we have something like this about testing which for example someone agree with it and then be a tester? and i was looking all of the codeforces and didn't see any blog about this so i decided to write my own. If someone knows the rules i'll be happy if he writes in comments.
Hi! As someone whose last contest was also their first—and who finished Problem A two minutes after the contest ended—I would have really loved to help you! I decided to put an end to your 20-minute wait simply because your name is Alireza, you're Iranian, and no one else had left a comment!
You should have been given the tester rules when you were given permission to be a tester, but regardless, commenting on the difficulty of problems is obviously something you aren't supposed to do (though you aren't the only one in recent memory who has done it...). And yeah, technically authors aren't supposed to invite people who just dm them asking to test (from the author guidelines).
but which testers are getting paid to test and how do I become one of those :)