Just have a look at this user @rohit_jere_rj karma history.
In no time he got so many upvotes or accepted answers from @lucas_dijk.
Irrelevant talks and topics.
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I am also surprised that why he has upvoted me that many times. I donāt know him. When you wrote the comment that it was a spam, so I deleted my answer too.
I accept sometimes I took answerās from quora and posted them without giving credits, but this time someone is trying to take advantage of my situation and attack me. I have really not done this!
Edit : I just looked up. I can see he has upvoted many otherās too. I really donāt know why.
Lol, the titles of these āKarma Farmingā are amazing. From Karma Farming to Karma Farming 2.0 to Karma Superfarming. Yaāll should make a movie on this. On a serious note, are these issues even dealt with by codechef or codechef just ignores them?
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Yes, this time, a lot of malpractice has taken place, in the last hours.
The idea was cunning. Their plan was clear. During the last 1 hour, they all farmed ~120-200 karmaā¦that too onā¦irrelevant answers. And now the list is POOF! and they feel that no action would be taken against them.
I was also observing. The admins have evidences and data, i referred them to that and wrote a strong mail to them. The 2 users were reported earlier too, and this time the admins cannot be merciful. If they allow such malpractices to prevail, it would be big hit to their integrity and fairness, and the effects will be visible on the forums.
Its sad to see such immature people doing malpractices.
Personally, i had decided to keep out of such threads, but this time i have to voice my opinion. Such malpractices are not tolerated here.
Also, @admin, this time you HAVE to make exceptions, go through users in Top 5 list and pick out the non-deserving ones. Ask for clarifications if you feel so, but dont let it go.
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āDuring the last 1 hour, they all farmed ~120-200 karmaā. So true @mathecodician was second till a while ago and now heās not even there in the top 5. Shows how fast the others have gotten their karmas increased.
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Right now, the list is reset. It resets every month start, midnight sharp. That was the main reason why they did it in last hour. Within 1 hour, lesser people see, lesser reports, or possibly a chance of getting away with it.
I know it gets reset at 12 am. I was talking about the April 2017 list tho, heās not there in the top 5 there.
WTF?! I went to mail codechef with names and malpractices employed when i observed them, couldnt take a look at final list. Thatā¦thats seriously not fairā¦
That is how well the Karma surge was timed that even you didnāt notice the effect of it.
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I saw someone had 40 karma by 00:56 may 1 and I was shocked. 40 Karma points within 56 minutes nearly 1 per min Seriously what is going on ??
As far as I see it a single has upvoted for many of the people in the list in April and May. Of Course as someone else mentioned he is causing confusion and I donāt know who is at fault but it is a serious issue.
@vijju123 The karma list for previous months are available on the website itself. If you want you can take a look at it.
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I have strong feeling that @lucas_dijk is a fake account. Go through his profile: https://discuss.codechef.com/users/216150/lucas_dijk
He creates the account 15 hours ago. As soon as he creates account , he needs fresh Karma to accomplish his mission. Therefore , he hurriedly , answers the 7 discussion threads with just one sentence āHow to ask Questions?ā . That earns him more than enough Karmas ( about 77 ) and at the last hour he does his job of upvoting his own answer( upvoting his original accountās answer through created fake account). But wait, he has to create confusion , if he just upvotes his own answers he will be caught easily. So he picks some more innocent profiles who are on threshold and upvotes them too.
So, the culprit is single person and should I name him? You must have connected the dots now to know whose fake account it is. @admin should nullify all the upvotes given by this fake account to restore the original karma-board.
Peace.
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Seems like @lucas_dijk is trolling people here or heās just too generous. Even I received 25 Karmas for answering his question.
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Idk even! I am speechless
Not only that, additional accounts, which i nowhere saw (even in karma history) of anybody the entire month are found to be upvoting answersā¦giving ~50-100 karma (per account) within 1 hour. Its plain cheating, plain desperation of cheaters. I strongly condemn this. Admins are to partially take some blame, these critical hours CALL FOR an admin to montior the list continuously (atleast, the final hour)
Oh yesā¦Damn i forgot about that! Thanks dear!!
Yes Sure. I have no problem in that.
I appreciate your honesty dear. luckas account did seem fake to me too. Mail your perspective to admin and if your claim is found true, you will be safe. Thats all i can say at this moment.
However, the concern is that the Contributor list is tampered with, and it would be fixed.
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Yes, its @rohit_jere_rj . I think I should not be ashamed to name you publicly. He comes to this forum. He spends one week or more with lots of efforts to plagiarise the answers from Quora to win Karmas . Everything is going fine as per plan and he is at top contributor list. But alas his tactic is revealed publicly in the forum(https://discuss.codechef.com/questions/96817/karma-farming-20) and now he knows well that he cannot now participate in forum. So he has no option but to sit silent. But now its the last day , he remembers his one week of effort into plagiarism and he thinks that shouldnāt go waste. Then, boom, he comes up with this idea.
I salute you friend.
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Sherlock, is that you?
Do you even get Karma for upvoting your own answers? Cn you even do that?
Thatās weird. If thatās the case, Iāll always upvote my answers since I find them to be helpful to me lol.