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Let's do something about team invitations
By Um_nik, history, 7 years ago, translation, In English

raidFoxx, mVpick and navneet.h are trying hard to invite me to their team. I rejected this invite 5 times already.

So, guys, you wanted my attention, here it is.

I can't really think of good solution to prevent such behavior. Maybe someone can?

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J̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶p̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶m̶h̶.̶

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Seems like you are ordering more attention than them.

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If you can’t beat em, join em.

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How to make LGM make a blog post about you xD

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My plan is to support a special setting to allow only your friends to invite in a team.

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The solution is the same as when someone's sending you annoying PMs.

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I agree, everyone in CF should stop focusing on security against DDOS attacks. Some newbies teasing Um_nik is so much more important.

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I think the easiest solution would to just implement "block this user" features. They seem to work for most websites.

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    Wouldn’t be that successful since it’s easy to make new accounts.

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      It's possible to only allow friends to invite you to join a team, but it's bad to only receive your friends' PM. I think a blacklist works for most situations, except those who work really hard. At least a blacklist can increase the cost of spamming.

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      I thought multiple accounts was against Codeforces TOS.

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        I think it's harder to ban all multiple accounts than to ban all spammers.

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    Yep.

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I think it would be better to have a talk with them about your intentions instead of both of you side playing the game of team invitation and rejection but no talk with some undefined iterations.

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I am really sorry for the behaviour, i was not by any means part of this action, but as other two are new and don't know much about codeforces , they were doing it. i will ask them not to do it, on my side i just accepted the team invite, and again sorry. also for team invitation it should also be mentioned who invited to the team. as anyone could do this type of things, i agree with mike, there should be a feature.

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I am curious: how many new invitations have you received since you wrote this post?

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Wait, you still haven't received tons of lovely spam messages from chinesecoder? That's poor of you :P

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    We had okey-ish conversation 8 month ago, I would say that they are in top-half of all messages I get.

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