I want to request some sort of strict ban of a big cheater Arnab Manna violating all contest rules.

arnabmanna is the first Red (GM) Indian Cheater who got banned not so long ago. We still see his account in the top rankings of the country. He has restarted cheating using his alt Destroyer0069.

Proof that both accounts are owned by the same person: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/142161?#comment-1282677

(He was in the organization MSIT, Kolkata with just 4 active members, out of which 2 were arnabmanna and Destroyer0069. I found it suspicious, then I noticed similarities in their submissions, language, and the fact that the new account was created right after his main one got banned. He changed all of it after getting exposed, just like a stupid)

Proof that he takes cheating help from others (he accepted it himself): https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/138083?#comment-1241413

Proof that he is cheating again:

He cheated using AI in the recent Educational Codeforces Round 180 (Rated for Div. 2), making all his submissions within the same minute. He waited 40 minutes before submitting them so that he wouldn't win the round instantly, but instead appear somewhere in the mid.

All of his contest submissions in the recent round are AI generated:

A: 325756272 AC
B: 325757133 AC
C: 325756037 AC
D: 325755651 AC
E: 325755278 AC
F: 325780250 WA (So sad, isn't it?)

This seems to be a hidden trick which I didn't know before

If we click on a problem a few times (3 or 5 worked in my case) in the contest dashboard, it opens in a PDF view. Apparently, this only seems to work in codeforces contests and not in gym contests.

Earlier, I only knew two ways, clicking the problem directly for a standard view or complete problemset for all problems in a page view.

I really want to know your opinions on this, I might be wrong here, but I don't think it's fair and that's why this blog

Please share your opinions if you think this to be right instead

Coming to my main point,

It feels stupid to see users like srishtik_16 posting on Linkedin stealing the information from some "very nice" codeforces blogs and making a ChatGPT post out of it to publish on Linkedin and farm their own engagement

Codeforces community has many elite people (legends) who post meaningful and extraordinary stuff. The real people who are behind the work/research are even more "sophisticated" and have "higher standards" in my opinion. So, I really don't think they'd ever like to get "cheap publicity" of their original work by some stupid LinkedIn Influencer on their way to farm some engagement



What kind of "vicious loop" is this? They see the posts made by each other and decide to make a new post copy pasting the exact same stuff?

Some random people rewriting the discussions from (https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/143462) without giving credits/reference to the original blog by MladenP. But making sure to "tag" the potential researchers on LinkedIn out of nowhere. I mean, I don't know if it feels good to be randomly tagged at some random posts when you are clueless about who tagged you and why

On a similar note, few months ago, I saw many stupid LinkedIn Posts tagging jiangly on "LinkedIn" when he crossed 4000 rating on Codeforces. Guess what? A random guy named "Lingyu Jiang" kept getting tagged every time, and he wasn't even Jiangly. Jiangly isn't even on LinkedIn but it seems like the writers didn't even hesitate

What are your opinions?

I was looking at the registered participants of Codeforces Round 1028 (Div. 1) and saw this

Some of them registered consecutively. Also, some of them belong to the same organization

Hello everyone,

Today, a lot of cheaters were skipped and banned. But sadly, aaryaibtedafoyez isn't banned yet.

Few days ago, AttractorsTheory puts up a blog to report some cheaters and aaryaibtedafoyez was one of them. Because of his frustration, he kept abusing the reporter AttractorsTheory and claimed him to be the alt of everyone who was the part of discussion.

Proof that aaryaibtedafoyez is a cheater (still he isn't banned yet):

If I am not wrong, community members can neither submit ideas for individual problems nor host an entire Div3 or Div4 round. But I think some people can bring unique ideas for easier problems.