Bartholomew, Makes a lot of sense. The thing which participant must understand and not be offended is that many of situations you described are indistinguishable from one another. Person who said that his source was stolen and who participated in a good faith can not be distinguished from person who did it intentionally. Same with person who "forgot to attach source, but here it is, I can send it now" - cannot be distinguished from person who used his friend code to come up with output file and then created some supporting code after the competition. So some people's feeling can be hurt, because they didn't really try to cheat and didn't do anything intentionally wrong. But they must understand that nobody can provide a proof for that and that's why rules are as strict as they are.
I agree with your comment that if to get 35 points in Qualifiers you need to cheat, then 100% you shouldn't try doing it at all. The more serious offense is when more competitive people, who have potential of getting to finals, just sit down in the same room and share any ideas they have during the competition. This is something which is impossible to track and the only thing remaining is to appeal to spirit of competition. One of the reasons why on-site final will be always needed - to make participant compete in controlled environment. I just participated in Coursera's training on Irrational Behavior by Duke's professor Dan Ariely - recommend it a lot. It had section related to dishonesty. And one of interesting things I got from there is that (and this is proved by experiment) people reminded about rules, code of conducts, (they even did ten commandments) right before the activity are much less likely to cheat. Maybe this is one of the idea you should look into - instead of showing blank screen for 2 hours before competition, put there summary of participation rules in regards to cheating, with tickmark at the bottom. I wouldn't recommend this idea if I wasn't impressed by research presented in the course. Thanks for advancement e-mail by the way, Good luck with conducting competition tomorrow. I will be doing it with timer on my own. I would really option for ability to still participate in the round in a "Shadow mode" meaning all as usual, but not being included in rankings. So if you get to this at some point - that would be nice. Regards, Stanislav. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code/-/gA4TYiS_6D0J. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
