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  "id": 9429,
  "title": "Cheaters on the leaderboard",
  "url": "/competitions/decoding-the-human-brain/discussion/9429",
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  "post_date": "2014-06-10T05:49:43.067Z",
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  "content": "<p>There are around 15 users at the end of the leaderboard that send their submission 5 minutes apart of&nbsp;each other and each one increases the accuracy in one example from the previous user.</p>\n\n<p>This has been going on for several days.</p>\n\n<p>I think that all are the same user that is trying to guess all the labels. He has already 30%.</p>",
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      "postDate": "06/10/2014 05:49:43",
      "content": "<p>There are around 15 users at the end of the leaderboard that send their submission 5 minutes apart of&nbsp;each other and each one increases the accuracy in one example from the previous user.</p>\n\n<p>This has been going on for several days.</p>\n\n<p>I think that all are the same user that is trying to guess all the labels. He has already 30%.</p>",
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      "postDate": "06/10/2014 16:53:37",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for pointing that out, and here at Kaggle we became aware of the same issue within minutes of the posts. While it is always disheartening that some people feel compelled&nbsp;to cheat (why they somehow deserve more submissions than everyone else?), in general Kaggle waits until the close of the competition to bring down justice. This has the advantage of capturing all cheating at the same time.</p>\n\n<p>Rest assured that Kaggle has algorithms and a review process in place to detect this (even subtle forms). &nbsp;Those 15 users at the end of the leaderboard, and the master account who created them, will be summarily removed from the competition, his/her work for naught.</p>",
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      "author_name": "rjrest",
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      "post_date": "06/10/2014 16:53:37",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for pointing that out, and here at Kaggle we became aware of the same issue within minutes of the posts. While it is always disheartening that some people feel compelled&nbsp;to cheat (why they somehow deserve more submissions than everyone else?), in general Kaggle waits until the close of the competition to bring down justice. This has the advantage of capturing all cheating at the same time.</p>\n\n<p>Rest assured that Kaggle has algorithms and a review process in place to detect this (even subtle forms). &nbsp;Those 15 users at the end of the leaderboard, and the master account who created them, will be summarily removed from the competition, his/her work for naught.</p>",
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