Cheaters using StackOverflow

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That was a nice one :stuck_out_tongue:

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Donā€™t worry! This question will be deleted or will not be consider in calculating the rating.

As one of the organizers, Iā€™m saying that this isnā€™t true.
Itā€™s bad that some participants cheated but it didnā€™t affect the leaderboard that much.

Weā€™re sorry about the situation.
Maybe we will try to find such topics during the contest next time, but itā€™s hard to say how efficiently we can do it.
The sad thing is that cheating will always exist in online contests (we will try to fight with it though).
Of course, you should remember that in the long run people playing fair are stronger because they spent more time thinking and thus learning.

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Some1 even asked for the SCHEDULE question on stackoverflow (though nt answered )ā€¦

canā€™t understand why just for the sake of getting more marks or better rank people are defeating the purpose of CODECHEFā€¦

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I was going through the questions this person(Narendra Modi) asked previously, it turns out he did that previously as well.
for the question:

He asked:

Which is on 4th of April, last year when the contest was going onā€¦ he may have asked more during other contests as well. Can an account be reported on stackoverflow, if it does it should be. Whoever he is using wrong name as well.

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The biggest problem is that we have no way to catch someone who asked a question on stack over flow.
He can just ask a question with some random user name. If someone answers him, he gets the answer. But even if someone doesnā€™t give the answer, its no loss for him and he can just try again.

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CodeChef should NOT(and will NOT, as @errichto said) remove a question from a contest after itā€™s ended.

If it would have been during the contest, they could have done it. But removing the entire problem now would be unfair for most of the people who actually spent a lot of time thinking.

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THANKS FOR CONFIRMATION!! Q getting deleted after contest would put people off as ā€œwho knows I may spend hours solving this and it wont count in the endā€¦ā€ because as you rightly remarked, cheating in online contest is tough to eradicate completely. I simply hope that the decision you all take results in best of all of us. Thanks one again!! :slight_smile:

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swetankmodi is right. Thatā€™d be unfair to many more. Itā€™d do more harm than good.