Over the past few months, I have made 10 different blogs with the intention of analyzing the "reaction" of the community. I'm very interested in psychology and plan to become a teacher in the future, so I think knowing how competitive coders see these kinds of posts is important to know. I also think it's something that might be interesting to y'all. Self reflection is important after all. I have tested things ranging from genuine coding relevant arguments, harmless memes, ragebaity memes, saying what users "want to hear" and discussing topics they generally "don't want to hear" about. At the end of the process, my total contribution has ended up at +61, which is pretty darn high, and supports the idea that people upvote more than downvote. So I will go through each blog in order of posting and explain the reaction from the community, and also explain my thoughts on the process.

Is Java Really That Inferior to C++?, -10 Contribution, 9 comments. This was my first blog and a genuine question that, thankfully, someone answered well. The most likely reason it got downvoted is because it looks like (and in a sense, was,) a noob asking a question that was probably obvious to many. Those kinds of posts tend to get downvoted compared to harder, more complex questions from higher rated users. This is one of the elements of what most people commonly refer to on the website as "ratism." Thankfully, I got my explanation, though I still plan on using Java anyways.

Cheating With AI is Pointless For Both Yourself and Your Competitors, +1 contribution, 0 comments. This my was first attempt to "say what people wanted to hear," and with my current knowledge, it's no surprise literally no one reacted to it. These kinds of posts with lower rated users complaining about cheating happen all the time. You can't really disagree with them, so you don't downvotes, but they don't tend to add value to the conversation. As a result, you get ignored. The post was just another random noob complaining about cheaters.

Rising From Confidently Mediocre to Slightly Competent Tier, +18 contribution, 10 comments. This was my first ragebaity meme post, and it was a lot more well liked than those after it. I basically just made ragebait names for all the tiers in codeforces I could rise to and combined it with my own personal story and meme events. It seemed to not offend as many people as make them laugh. There is a lot of tension between ratings in codeforces, and this blog, along with the one after, likely benefitted by alleviating this.

My Chance of Beating Benq In a Contest Have Dropped From Incredible 0.0000772% To Abysmal 0.0000596%, +51 contribution, 21 comments. This post was me making a meme about how win calculation odds are in terms of elo and similar ranking systems, and it went over pretty well. A lot of people seemed to find it funny, but also somewhat motivating, which surprised me. I think the "there's a chance" mindset, made a lot of mid to lower rated viewers enjoy the blog, as well as the absurdity of the odds. I can confirm that I have not yet beat Benq in a coding contest.

We Should Never Rollback Ever, -5 contribution, 0 comments. At this point I had seen around 10 millions posts requesting a rollback due to influxes of cheaters, so I decided to make fun of them. In the post is several extremely memey and stupid reasons why doing a rollback would be bad. It seems this kind of joke didn't land as hard. When people REALLY want a rollback, they don't appreciate or enjoy people making fun of their requests. It was also slightly harder to tell it was a joke, though in my opinion it was still pretty obvious.

Human Trying To Sound Like AI VS AI Trying To Sound Human., +38 contribution, 25 comments. From what I saw, using AI to write a blog is a good way to get hated on and downvoted, but what if you are upfront about the usage of AI, and try to use it in a unique way that could potentially solve real world issues? In the blog, I wrote one essay myself, and the other with chatgpt, and had users try to guess which one was AI. Around 80% of guessers were correct, which leads me to believe the community is moderately fake AI ragebait-proof. Despite the unliked topic, and the blog getting a small number of downvotes at first, it became one of my most upvoted posts, indicating that people don't mind things involving controversial topics if it's done in a smart way.

Y'all Correctly Guessed Which Essay Was Human and Which Was AI, but how do AI Checkers Fair?, +8 contribution, 5 comments. This is an extension of the last blog, where I tested the two papers against AI detectors to see how accurate they are. I've seen a lot of complaints on youtube about students trying to "intentionally make mistakes" to not get flagged as AI. This could actually have real world impact, but given that it required previous post knowledge to appreciate, and the limited experimentation, it didn't become very big. That said, I do think I'll probably use it to guide my work as a teacher and helping other teachers. It could actually help prevent false accusations of AI writing.

Livenlife453's Guide To Farming Downvotes, -22 contribution, 2 comments. This blog was so hated that it actually got taken down and my account got muted from blogging for 3 days. For that reason, you can't access it. This was a ragebait blog partly about what I learned from my previous blogs, but also from observing others. It was the guide to gaining negative contribution. It explained tactics that are ineffective, like begging for downvotes and complaining about random things, and by contrast, effective strategies that I won't list as they are likely what got the blog taken down. Most people would be upset to be muted. For me, I was thrilled, as this was an incredibly useful point of data on what level of ragebait is "too far." Ragebait becomes too far when it could actually have tangible negative impact on the community. If people took my advice, the community would, as a whole, suffer, which is not true about any of my other ragebait blogs.

Why Is It So Hard to Consider Yourself "Good" at Competitive Programming?, +15 contribution, 6 comments. This was a serious blog intended to also be somewhat motivating and wholesome. It discusses the biases that explain why users may feel like they "suck" at competitive programming, with important concepts such as the missing middle, human psychology of achievement, and motivation behind actions. I actually think many of y'all could use the information in it if you are struggling with mental health or lacking motivation, so I'd suggest reading it if you haven't already. But overall, it was decently liked, but didn't get big. It contributed to the community, but may be a bit too wordy and not direct enough.

Why, Mathematically, There is Someone Out There Who Can Love You, +85 contribution, 26 comments. This was another motivating blog that was also kind of memey but a little serious at the same time. It is a mathematical psuedo-proof on why people can love you. While I didn't explicitly mean it romantically, virtually everyone seemed to take it that way. #MaleLonelinessAwareness. Honestly, I think the proof is kinda really terribly made from a mathematical perspective, ngl. It has several holes in it, but I suppose the good intentions and impact made up for it. A feel good post, and my highest contribution one by a good margin.

So ultimately, throughout this process, I came to a few conclusions. Firstly, being positive is generally better liked than being ragebaity. This is kind of obvious with the whole definition of ragebaiting, but its definitely worth noting the magnitude of this difference. The community promotes free speech pretty well, but will not allow things that are both completely irrelevant to CP and also could actively harm the community. They also seem to upvote serious posts from those who have higher ratings, even when they say similar things as lower rated members, backing up the theory of ratism that others have discussed. The community is able to take a joke well if it's obvious and harmless, but not if it's too offensive or too hard to notice. Finally, they are open to discussion about topics they may already have negative opinions towards, and can differentiate their own preconceptions with their opinion on a blog.

Thank you for your time. I hope you I will likely continue posting blogs in the future. From, LivenLife453. Now, interestingly, I have created an estimate with my knowledge for the specific contribution of this blog after 1 day. I am curious how accurate I am, and will likely add this after the fact.