{
  "id": 238084,
  "title": "[winning strategy] just create some new accounts and level the playing field",
  "url": "/competitions/hubmap-kidney-segmentation/discussion/238084",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-05-11T07:06:49.207374600Z",
  "votes": 10,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Are you frustrated by the 30 something hour GPU limit? Or the TPU limit? Or the 5sub/day or 2 final sub/competition?</p>\n<p>Do you have friends that need a kaggle medal? Or do you just want to make some money by selling a medaled kaggle account?</p>\n<p>Well, you're in luck because today I present to you a solution to all your problems: just create some new accounts and this will be yesterday's problem! No more GPU and TPU limits! no more sub limits! Or you could just sell one of those medaled ghost accounts if you get one.</p>\n<p>Don't miss out, don't let other's take advantage of this cool trick, do it now!</p>\n<p>Nah, i'm being sarcastic.. Lots of people did good work on this competition and I can't wait to see the wining solutions and also do a post mortem and see what I could have done better.</p>\n<p>On the other hand there's probably been some cheating and there`s always gonna be. But it's frustrating and it kinda ruins the experience. Just wish kaggle would do more to make cheating harder. It's super easy to do what I described above.</p>\n<p>I wrote this  because I noticed that there are some teams in top 100 where between 2  and 4 of the accounts are very fresh (&lt;1 month) and are created on the same day and don't have any activity in other competitions. I'm not saying this is cheating and it would probably hard to prove if it were but kaggle should try to discourage this more.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/LQ7f6Dq/image.png\" alt=\"suspicios1\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/n1VpSPz/image.png\" alt=\"suspicios2\"></p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1301629",
      "postDate": "05/11/2021 07:06:49",
      "content": "<p>Are you frustrated by the 30 something hour GPU limit? Or the TPU limit? Or the 5sub/day or 2 final sub/competition?</p>\n<p>Do you have friends that need a kaggle medal? Or do you just want to make some money by selling a medaled kaggle account?</p>\n<p>Well, you're in luck because today I present to you a solution to all your problems: just create some new accounts and this will be yesterday's problem! No more GPU and TPU limits! no more sub limits! Or you could just sell one of those medaled ghost accounts if you get one.</p>\n<p>Don't miss out, don't let other's take advantage of this cool trick, do it now!</p>\n<p>Nah, i'm being sarcastic.. Lots of people did good work on this competition and I can't wait to see the wining solutions and also do a post mortem and see what I could have done better.</p>\n<p>On the other hand there's probably been some cheating and there`s always gonna be. But it's frustrating and it kinda ruins the experience. Just wish kaggle would do more to make cheating harder. It's super easy to do what I described above.</p>\n<p>I wrote this  because I noticed that there are some teams in top 100 where between 2  and 4 of the accounts are very fresh (&lt;1 month) and are created on the same day and don't have any activity in other competitions. I'm not saying this is cheating and it would probably hard to prove if it were but kaggle should try to discourage this more.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/LQ7f6Dq/image.png\" alt=\"suspicios1\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/n1VpSPz/image.png\" alt=\"suspicios2\"></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Are you frustrated by the 30 something hour GPU limit? Or the TPU limit? Or the 5sub/day or 2 final sub/competition?\n\nDo you have friends that need a kaggle medal? Or do you just want to make some money by selling a medaled kaggle account?\n\nWell, you're in luck because today I present to you a solution to all your problems: just create some new accounts and this will be yesterday's problem! No more GPU and TPU limits! no more sub limits! Or you could just sell one of those medaled ghost accounts if you get one.\n\nDon't miss out, don't let other's take advantage of this cool trick, do it now!\n\nNah, i'm being sarcastic.. Lots of people did good work on this competition and I can't wait to see the wining solutions and also do a post mortem and see what I could have done better.\n\nOn the other hand there's probably been some cheating and there`s always gonna be. But it's frustrating and it kinda ruins the experience. Just wish kaggle would do more to make cheating harder. It's super easy to do what I described above.\n\nI wrote this  because I noticed that there are some teams in top 100 where between 2  and 4 of the accounts are very fresh (<1 month) and are created on the same day and don't have any activity in other competitions. I'm not saying this is cheating and it would probably hard to prove if it were but kaggle should try to discourage this more.\n\n![suspicios1](https://i.ibb.co/LQ7f6Dq/image.png)\n\n![suspicios2]( https://i.ibb.co/n1VpSPz/image.png)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1301727",
      "postDate": "05/11/2021 08:02:50",
      "content": "<p>Kaggle need </p>\n<p>Location, Government ID and 1 min video call Verification for any new account.</p>\n<p>Something like this <br>\n<a href=\"https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067788-Location-Government-ID-Verification\" target=\"_blank\">https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067788-Location-Government-ID-Verification</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Kaggle need \n\nLocation, Government ID and 1 min video call Verification for any new account.\n\nSomething like this \nhttps://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067788-Location-Government-ID-Verification",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1302257",
      "postDate": "05/11/2021 13:06:57",
      "content": "<p>Ain't every account required having their phone number registered before joining competitions? just curious</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Ain't every account required having their phone number registered before joining competitions? just curious",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1302271",
      "postDate": "05/11/2021 13:14:20",
      "content": "<p>Yes…….</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes.......",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1301727,
      "author_name": "faisalalsrheed",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/11/2021 08:02:50",
      "content": "<p>Kaggle need </p>\n<p>Location, Government ID and 1 min video call Verification for any new account.</p>\n<p>Something like this <br>\n<a href=\"https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067788-Location-Government-ID-Verification\" target=\"_blank\">https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067788-Location-Government-ID-Verification</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1302257,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/11/2021 13:06:57",
      "content": "<p>Ain't every account required having their phone number registered before joining competitions? just curious</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1302271,
          "author_name": "faisalalsrheed",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/11/2021 13:14:20",
          "content": "<p>Yes…….</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1301629": "Are you frustrated by the 30 something hour GPU limit? Or the TPU limit? Or the 5sub/day or 2 final sub/competition?\n\nDo you have friends that need a kaggle medal? Or do you just want to make some money by selling a medaled kaggle account?\n\nWell, you're in luck because today I present to you a solution to all your problems: just create some new accounts and this will be yesterday's problem! No more GPU and TPU limits! no more sub limits! Or you could just sell one of those medaled ghost accounts if you get one.\n\nDon't miss out, don't let other's take advantage of this cool trick, do it now!\n\nNah, i'm being sarcastic.. Lots of people did good work on this competition and I can't wait to see the wining solutions and also do a post mortem and see what I could have done better.\n\nOn the other hand there's probably been some cheating and there`s always gonna be. But it's frustrating and it kinda ruins the experience. Just wish kaggle would do more to make cheating harder. It's super easy to do what I described above.\n\nI wrote this  because I noticed that there are some teams in top 100 where between 2  and 4 of the accounts are very fresh (<1 month) and are created on the same day and don't have any activity in other competitions. I'm not saying this is cheating and it would probably hard to prove if it were but kaggle should try to discourage this more.\n\n![suspicios1](https://i.ibb.co/LQ7f6Dq/image.png)\n\n![suspicios2]( https://i.ibb.co/n1VpSPz/image.png)",
    "1301727": "Kaggle need \n\nLocation, Government ID and 1 min video call Verification for any new account.\n\nSomething like this \nhttps://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067788-Location-Government-ID-Verification",
    "1302257": "Ain't every account required having their phone number registered before joining competitions? just curious",
    "1302271": "Yes......."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}