TL;DR stop making new accounts just to post blogs and post it on your main.

Hello everyone!

I know it has been a while since I ever post a blog. I'm lazy ok? Today I want to tell you what went pretty bad recently: The existence of alts.

There are many type of alts which is being used for different stuffs, but let's put it in a side and talk about the most annoying type for me. Yeah, those unrated alts that appears everywhere, from recent blogs to comment sections.

If I am not wrong then every 1-2 days there would be an alt like that appear and post something like: Asking to be better at topics, talking about CP in india, or other stuffs. But what occur the most? Those who "catch" cheaters.

I mean when EVERY SINGLE CONTEST that ends there would appear a blog that says "Cheater EXPOSED in Codeforces round #XYZ!" or "Google Kickstart round M code LEAKED!" from a random alt created shortly ago, drop a bunch of comments, and then some continue doing their "good" stuffs, some AFK forever.

What do I mean? I did a research about users that have "cheater" in their username (I know there would be a lot of others that don't), and oh my lord there's a lot. (You can do it yourself here.)

So what do I mean "catching" cheaters? Not something like "If you want to be better don't cheat next time" but tell you what? They don't stop just there. Everytime someone they catched post a random comment, they jump right in and says "You stupid cheater tryna post comments but we won't forget you ever HAHAHA" or something similar.

Proof? A lot, search it by yourself, but if you are lazy so here's one.

It's really annoying that people who cheated and even those who changed their minds can't live normally at Codeforces and being stomped. I would still say, exposing cheaters are good, and people who cheat should be punished to not doing that at the future.

But why don't you post it on your main?

Are you scared of polluting your main account? Or you think you want to farm upvotes but your blog doesn't deserve to be on your main? Please, be yourself. If you post it in your main account, you will for sure getting more attention right? At least you are something on this platform, not a random alt bullshit that just made 2 hours ago and became a legend at contribution.

Way better right? Everytime I see an alt account that has the Last visit time almost equal to the Register time, I asked myself: Why the hell this account needs to exist anyway? What is the purpose of creating an entire account just to post a blog and boom, gone? I mean, those posts not only don't make an impact on cheaters (They are unrated, and yes, there are too many cheaters), but they make Codeforces recent blogs worse. Don't judge me, just my own opinion. Post it on your main account would be great for you, me and this platform.

Another thing I need to say, if you found a cheater, why ping the contest authors and the creator of this amazing platform for no reason? Why do you ping them? Just to be answered "I will take a look about this, thanks" and you will be happy that you did something big? Not only wasting their time looking at stupid cheaters you caught, but it sounds just dumb. Useless. For real, tryna make a contest author replying to your cheater exposed blog, "for the sake of this community", why? They tried their best at creating problems, make Codeforces better everyday, just to see your blog sake? Think.

Everything I said above is just the "bright" side of those alts sake. I know there are random alts that saying, post stuffs that is "not supportive" to Codeforces (you remember Good_Stone spams?) but I won't go any further since it doesn't even deserve to be here.

I think I made this too long so I will stop here. Just saying I wrote this all freestyled (just to release my anger, not dependent on any other previous posts) so if I say something rude or wrong then sorry, please don't take this seriously.

Be your true self. Get to the main. Solve some problems. Get a life. Don't bother about those cheaters sake, overcome it. You will see your life would be way better :)

Any opinions drop below.

Stay positive mate.