{
  "id": 366267,
  "title": "Public lb big change on the last days of the deadline?",
  "url": "/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/366267",
  "author_name": "Kuro",
  "post_date": "2022-11-15T14:33:22.198000",
  "votes": 33,
  "comment_count": 28,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>just days ago, I was about 60th on leader board. now it's 110th.it was a bit surprising to me</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 2030601,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T14:33:22.197Z",
      "content": "<p>just days ago, I was about 60th on leader board. now it's 110th.it was a bit surprising to me</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "just days ago, I was about 60th on leader board. now it's 110th.it was a bit surprising to me",
      "votes": 33
    },
    {
      "id": 2030775,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:01:00.370Z",
      "content": "<p>I just found a post on XiaoHongShu(Chinese Instagram): <a href=\"http://xhslink.com/S6Ttfl\" target=\"_blank\">http://xhslink.com/S6Ttfl</a><br>\nAnother post for Feedback competition: <a href=\"http://xhslink.com/cFdufl\" target=\"_blank\">http://xhslink.com/cFdufl</a><br>\n------------------------------------Translate for the first link-------------------------------------------<br>\n<strong>Title: Silver medal guaranteed! The latest edition of the Kaggle competition is hot for registration!</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Full text：</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaggle gold or silver. If we fail to take the silver medal, we will not charge you. The bronze medal is free.</li>\n<li>Study Abroad, Background Enhancement, Changing careers to write code</li>\n<li>Latest data mining competition: open-ended problem - multimodal single-cell integration</li>\n<li>Enrollment ends: November 9</li>\n<li>Result time: November 16</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I just found a post on XiaoHongShu(Chinese Instagram): http://xhslink.com/S6Ttfl\nAnother post for Feedback competition: http://xhslink.com/cFdufl\n------------------------------------Translate for the first link-------------------------------------------\n**Title: Silver medal guaranteed! The latest edition of the Kaggle competition is hot for registration!**\n\n**Full text：**\n- Kaggle gold or silver. If we fail to take the silver medal, we will not charge you. The bronze medal is free.\n- Study Abroad, Background Enhancement, Changing careers to write code\n- Latest data mining competition: open-ended problem - multimodal single-cell integration\n- Enrollment ends: November 9\n- Result time: November 16",
      "votes": 21,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030803,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:16:27.147Z",
          "content": "<p><strong>Updata: Some behaviour patterns of the cheating accounts.</strong><br>\nI think most teams rank 20~37 currently are cheating,  except team <code>chromosom</code>  and  <code>Shuji Suzuki</code> . </p>\n<p>The only records that almost all of the accounts in these suspicious teams had on kaggle before were commenting a meaningless comment in a random post. (e.g. <code>Thank you! Wonderful idea!</code>) I guess this will turn them from novice to contributor, so they won't be detected as easily!</p>\n<p>There should be more suspicious teams in the whole leaderboard. But the <code>contributors teams</code> rank 20~37 now are too wired.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "**Updata: Some behaviour patterns of the cheating accounts.**\nI think most teams rank 20~37 currently are cheating,  except team `chromosom`  and  `Shuji Suzuki` . \n\nThe only records that almost all of the accounts in these suspicious teams had on kaggle before were commenting a meaningless comment in a random post. (e.g. `Thank you! Wonderful idea!`) I guess this will turn them from novice to contributor, so they won't be detected as easily!\n\nThere should be more suspicious teams in the whole leaderboard. But the `contributors teams` rank 20~37 now are too wired.",
          "votes": 14
        },
        {
          "id": 2030804,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:17:48.830Z",
          "content": "<p>Another organized cheating… Hope they all get deleted by anti-cheating system and 'work hard' for nothing.😅</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Another organized cheating... Hope they all get deleted by anti-cheating system and 'work hard' for nothing.😅",
          "votes": 14
        },
        {
          "id": 2030806,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:24:09.107Z",
          "content": "<p>I was 19th a few days ago , and in about 3 days I lost 20 places on the LB (currently 39th). I worked so hard on this competition. Its sad it got ruined.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": " I was 19th a few days ago , and in about 3 days I lost 20 places on the LB (currently 39th). I worked so hard on this competition. Its sad it got ruined.",
          "votes": 5
        },
        {
          "id": 2030808,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:26:03.700Z",
          "content": "<p>I think you got it right, the posts are not reachable now.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I think you got it right, the posts are not reachable now.",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 2030816,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:31:52.010Z",
          "content": "<p>I have started a <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/366267\" target=\"_blank\">new thread</a> to better collect and organize evidence.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I have started a [new thread](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/366267) to better collect and organize evidence.",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 2030837,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:45:37.813Z",
          "content": "<p>One interesting thing I noticed is that some of these people who bought the medal from \"cheating teams\" often use their own inch photos and real names as their avatars and IDs. 🙊</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "One interesting thing I noticed is that some of these people who bought the medal from \"cheating teams\" often use their own inch photos and real names as their avatars and IDs. 🙊",
          "votes": 3
        },
        {
          "id": 2030842,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:48:08.617Z",
          "content": "<p>The post in XiaoHongshu has been deleted. But I took a screenshot.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s2.loli.net/2022/11/16/ZMtuVbiFGkDJUe9.jpg\" alt=\"1.jpg\"></p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "The post in XiaoHongshu has been deleted. But I took a screenshot.\n\n![1.jpg](https://s2.loli.net/2022/11/16/ZMtuVbiFGkDJUe9.jpg)",
          "votes": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2030828,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:39:05.243Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone,</p>\n<p>Please report any suspicions of cheating here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating</a></p>\n<p>We'll conduct an investigation after the competition ends and remove any teams that have violated the rules of the competition.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone,\n\nPlease report any suspicions of cheating here: https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\n\nWe'll conduct an investigation after the competition ends and remove any teams that have violated the rules of the competition.",
      "votes": 12
    },
    {
      "id": 2030658,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T15:02:51.193Z",
      "content": "<p>weird, our team is 28 -&gt; 57. it is something like there was a high score public notebook but we didn't see</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "weird, our team is 28 -> 57. it is something like there was a high score public notebook but we didn't see",
      "votes": 9,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030708,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T15:18:19.063Z",
          "content": "<p>Surprised and confused too.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Surprised and confused too.",
          "votes": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2031279,
      "postDate": "2022-11-16T01:28:56.677Z",
      "content": "<p>Yesterday, our team also feel surprise of the large change on the public LB. And then I searched the relevant social platform to see whether there are suspicious organizations or not, and finally I got the same finding with <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/forcewithme\" target=\"_blank\">@forcewithme</a>. Although our team shake down a lot (40+-&gt;700+) on the private LB which is not going to be changed by removing these suspicious teams, they are unfair for other teams if they do cheating. Hope Kaggle could take a look on it. Thanks.</p>\n<p>By the way, I made the screenshot before they deleted that post. Hope it's helpful.<br>\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F1867317%2F94883091aa43676db80f8f4135652f14%2FSnipaste_2022-11-16_22-37-56.png?generation=1668609530372236&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yesterday, our team also feel surprise of the large change on the public LB. And then I searched the relevant social platform to see whether there are suspicious organizations or not, and finally I got the same finding with @forcewithme. Although our team shake down a lot (40+->700+) on the private LB which is not going to be changed by removing these suspicious teams, they are unfair for other teams if they do cheating. Hope Kaggle could take a look on it. Thanks.\n\nBy the way, I made the screenshot before they deleted that post. Hope it's helpful.\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F1867317%2F94883091aa43676db80f8f4135652f14%2FSnipaste_2022-11-16_22-37-56.png?generation=1668609530372236&alt=media)",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 2030812,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:29:09.143Z",
      "content": "<p>This is really disheartening, we've been online since the weekend trying one last sprint, it's going to be a shame to lose to a bunch of fake accounts</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This is really disheartening, we've been online since the weekend trying one last sprint, it's going to be a shame to lose to a bunch of fake accounts",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 2030770,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T15:59:02.323Z",
      "content": "<p>Seems like some people have a finish of a sprinter in a marathon race. Lost my breath at a critical time :(</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Seems like some people have a finish of a sprinter in a marathon race. Lost my breath at a critical time :(",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030813,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:30:17.493Z",
          "content": "<p>Formula 1 is a better analogy here.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Formula 1 is a better analogy here.",
          "votes": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2030822,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:34:52.543Z",
      "content": "<p>Disgusting ….. Kaggle needs to ban those players if it is true! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Disgusting ..... Kaggle needs to ban those players if it is true! ",
      "votes": 4
    },
    {
      "id": 2030815,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:31:31.513Z",
      "content": "<p>Definitely there’s some cheating going on here <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ashleychow\" target=\"_blank\">@ashleychow</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ryanholbrook\" target=\"_blank\">@ryanholbrook</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/danielburkhardt\" target=\"_blank\">@danielburkhardt</a> 🤷🏻</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Definitely there’s some cheating going on here @ashleychow @ryanholbrook @danielburkhardt 🤷🏻",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030867,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T17:05:39.207Z",
          "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/tarique7\" target=\"_blank\">@tarique7</a> as Ryan said here, please report any suspicions of cheating here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating</a></p>\n<p>As the competition organizers, we rely on the Kaggle team to enforce the platform's anti-cheating policy, there's not much else we can do.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Hi @tarique7 as Ryan said here, please report any suspicions of cheating here: https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\n\nAs the competition organizers, we rely on the Kaggle team to enforce the platform's anti-cheating policy, there's not much else we can do."
        },
        {
          "id": 2030883,
          "postDate": "2022-11-15T17:20:41.553Z",
          "content": "<p>the original post has been deleted from the platform <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">https://s2.loli.net/2022/11/16/ZMtuVbiFGkDJUe9.jpg</a>,  however the evidence is definitely there when one takes a look at all the LB position holders from ~20 to 50, these accounts have been created in last few months and all they did is to comment \"thanks for sharing\", \"great work\" etc etc filler comments so as to get to the contributor tier and bypass novice filter. </p>\n<p>Their public activity indicates the pattern and are clear outliers form a legitimate competitors. </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "the original post has been deleted from the platform [https://s2.loli.net/2022/11/16/ZMtuVbiFGkDJUe9.jpg](url),  however the evidence is definitely there when one takes a look at all the LB position holders from ~20 to 50, these accounts have been created in last few months and all they did is to comment \"thanks for sharing\", \"great work\" etc etc filler comments so as to get to the contributor tier and bypass novice filter. \n\nTheir public activity indicates the pattern and are clear outliers form a legitimate competitors. ",
          "votes": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2030670,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T15:06:14.807Z",
      "content": "<p>I was near 20th, but have lost a lot of places in the last few days. I feel a little strange.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I was near 20th, but have lost a lot of places in the last few days. I feel a little strange.",
      "votes": 4
    },
    {
      "id": 2030611,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T14:38:29.543Z",
      "content": "<p>60 -&gt; 140+ in five days. lol</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "60 -> 140+ in five days. lol",
      "votes": 4
    },
    {
      "id": 2030820,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:34:09.880Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/364669\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/364669</a> I used to write this discussion post, and I found that most of the methods based on biological information cannot work, which means that I believe top methods are based on ds track or feature engineering aspects. I assume this competition should be based on biologcial ideas, which may lead the cheating not very easily to happen, just like the 1st open problems competition. Now I know my assumption is wrong.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/364669 I used to write this discussion post, and I found that most of the methods based on biological information cannot work, which means that I believe top methods are based on ds track or feature engineering aspects. I assume this competition should be based on biologcial ideas, which may lead the cheating not very easily to happen, just like the 1st open problems competition. Now I know my assumption is wrong.",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 2030732,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T15:25:36.423Z",
      "content": "<p>Same here, 70th -&gt; 160th… what are we missing? :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Same here, 70th -> 160th... what are we missing? :)",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 2125211,
      "postDate": "2023-02-01T14:20:46.020Z",
      "content": "<p>Some profile's comments are not acceptable. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Some profile's comments are not acceptable. "
    },
    {
      "id": 2031267,
      "postDate": "2022-11-16T01:13:14.367Z",
      "content": "<p>The last several days ,the competition is very intense,many kaggle invoice(new account) come in,and Leaderboard is Rapid change，my team is about 30th+ -&gt; 90th+,it's amazing and confused😟</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The last several days ,the competition is very intense,many kaggle invoice(new account) come in,and Leaderboard is Rapid change，my team is about 30th+ -> 90th+,it's amazing and confused😟"
    },
    {
      "id": 2031380,
      "postDate": "2022-11-16T03:33:13.897Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "isDeleted": true
    },
    {
      "id": 2031176,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T23:10:50.453Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "isDeleted": true
    },
    {
      "id": 2030854,
      "postDate": "2022-11-15T16:54:38.420Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": 5,
      "isDeleted": true
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2030775,
      "author_name": "ForcewithMe",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:01:00.370000",
      "content": "<p>I just found a post on XiaoHongShu(Chinese Instagram): <a href=\"http://xhslink.com/S6Ttfl\" target=\"_blank\">http://xhslink.com/S6Ttfl</a><br>\nAnother post for Feedback competition: <a href=\"http://xhslink.com/cFdufl\" target=\"_blank\">http://xhslink.com/cFdufl</a><br>\n------------------------------------Translate for the first link-------------------------------------------<br>\n<strong>Title: Silver medal guaranteed! The latest edition of the Kaggle competition is hot for registration!</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Full text：</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaggle gold or silver. If we fail to take the silver medal, we will not charge you. The bronze medal is free.</li>\n<li>Study Abroad, Background Enhancement, Changing careers to write code</li>\n<li>Latest data mining competition: open-ended problem - multimodal single-cell integration</li>\n<li>Enrollment ends: November 9</li>\n<li>Result time: November 16</li>\n</ul>",
      "votes": 21,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030803,
          "author_name": "ForcewithMe",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:16:27.147000",
          "content": "<p><strong>Updata: Some behaviour patterns of the cheating accounts.</strong><br>\nI think most teams rank 20~37 currently are cheating,  except team <code>chromosom</code>  and  <code>Shuji Suzuki</code> . </p>\n<p>The only records that almost all of the accounts in these suspicious teams had on kaggle before were commenting a meaningless comment in a random post. (e.g. <code>Thank you! Wonderful idea!</code>) I guess this will turn them from novice to contributor, so they won't be detected as easily!</p>\n<p>There should be more suspicious teams in the whole leaderboard. But the <code>contributors teams</code> rank 20~37 now are too wired.</p>",
          "votes": 14,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030804,
          "author_name": "Leon",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:17:48.830000",
          "content": "<p>Another organized cheating… Hope they all get deleted by anti-cheating system and 'work hard' for nothing.😅</p>",
          "votes": 14,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030806,
          "author_name": "SergioMiguelM",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:24:09.107000",
          "content": "<p>I was 19th a few days ago , and in about 3 days I lost 20 places on the LB (currently 39th). I worked so hard on this competition. Its sad it got ruined.</p>",
          "votes": 5,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030808,
          "author_name": "Anthony Chiu",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:26:03.700000",
          "content": "<p>I think you got it right, the posts are not reachable now.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030816,
          "author_name": "ForcewithMe",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:31:52.010000",
          "content": "<p>I have started a <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/366267\" target=\"_blank\">new thread</a> to better collect and organize evidence.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030837,
          "author_name": "Leo Lu",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:45:37.813000",
          "content": "<p>One interesting thing I noticed is that some of these people who bought the medal from \"cheating teams\" often use their own inch photos and real names as their avatars and IDs. 🙊</p>",
          "votes": 3,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030842,
          "author_name": "ForcewithMe",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:48:08.617000",
          "content": "<p>The post in XiaoHongshu has been deleted. But I took a screenshot.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://s2.loli.net/2022/11/16/ZMtuVbiFGkDJUe9.jpg\" alt=\"1.jpg\"></p>",
          "votes": 3,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2030828,
      "author_name": "Ryan Holbrook",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:39:05.243000",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone,</p>\n<p>Please report any suspicions of cheating here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating</a></p>\n<p>We'll conduct an investigation after the competition ends and remove any teams that have violated the rules of the competition.</p>",
      "votes": 12,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030658,
      "author_name": "no-magic",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T15:02:51.193000",
      "content": "<p>weird, our team is 28 -&gt; 57. it is something like there was a high score public notebook but we didn't see</p>",
      "votes": 9,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030708,
          "author_name": "Joseph Zhou",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T15:18:19.063000",
          "content": "<p>Surprised and confused too.</p>",
          "votes": 3,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2031279,
      "author_name": "Alvin.ai",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-16T01:28:56.677000",
      "content": "<p>Yesterday, our team also feel surprise of the large change on the public LB. And then I searched the relevant social platform to see whether there are suspicious organizations or not, and finally I got the same finding with <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/forcewithme\" target=\"_blank\">@forcewithme</a>. Although our team shake down a lot (40+-&gt;700+) on the private LB which is not going to be changed by removing these suspicious teams, they are unfair for other teams if they do cheating. Hope Kaggle could take a look on it. Thanks.</p>\n<p>By the way, I made the screenshot before they deleted that post. Hope it's helpful.<br>\n<img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F1867317%2F94883091aa43676db80f8f4135652f14%2FSnipaste_2022-11-16_22-37-56.png?generation=1668609530372236&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030812,
      "author_name": "victorasso",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:29:09.143000",
      "content": "<p>This is really disheartening, we've been online since the weekend trying one last sprint, it's going to be a shame to lose to a bunch of fake accounts</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030770,
      "author_name": "A Legacy Grandmaster!",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T15:59:02.323000",
      "content": "<p>Seems like some people have a finish of a sprinter in a marathon race. Lost my breath at a critical time :(</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030813,
          "author_name": "Anthony Chiu",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:30:17.493000",
          "content": "<p>Formula 1 is a better analogy here.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2030822,
      "author_name": "Chacon",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:34:52.543000",
      "content": "<p>Disgusting ….. Kaggle needs to ban those players if it is true! </p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030815,
      "author_name": "tarick.morty",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:31:31.513000",
      "content": "<p>Definitely there’s some cheating going on here <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ashleychow\" target=\"_blank\">@ashleychow</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ryanholbrook\" target=\"_blank\">@ryanholbrook</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/danielburkhardt\" target=\"_blank\">@danielburkhardt</a> 🤷🏻</p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2030867,
          "author_name": "Daniel Burkhardt",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T17:05:39.207000",
          "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/tarique7\" target=\"_blank\">@tarique7</a> as Ryan said here, please report any suspicions of cheating here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating</a></p>\n<p>As the competition organizers, we rely on the Kaggle team to enforce the platform's anti-cheating policy, there's not much else we can do.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2030883,
          "author_name": "tarick.morty",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-11-15T17:20:41.553000",
          "content": "<p>the original post has been deleted from the platform <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\">https://s2.loli.net/2022/11/16/ZMtuVbiFGkDJUe9.jpg</a>,  however the evidence is definitely there when one takes a look at all the LB position holders from ~20 to 50, these accounts have been created in last few months and all they did is to comment \"thanks for sharing\", \"great work\" etc etc filler comments so as to get to the contributor tier and bypass novice filter. </p>\n<p>Their public activity indicates the pattern and are clear outliers form a legitimate competitors. </p>",
          "votes": 3,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2030670,
      "author_name": "moritake04",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T15:06:14.807000",
      "content": "<p>I was near 20th, but have lost a lot of places in the last few days. I feel a little strange.</p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030611,
      "author_name": "Feiteng",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T14:38:29.543000",
      "content": "<p>60 -&gt; 140+ in five days. lol</p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030820,
      "author_name": "TESUZI",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:34:09.880000",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/364669\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/364669</a> I used to write this discussion post, and I found that most of the methods based on biological information cannot work, which means that I believe top methods are based on ds track or feature engineering aspects. I assume this competition should be based on biologcial ideas, which may lead the cheating not very easily to happen, just like the 1st open problems competition. Now I know my assumption is wrong.</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030732,
      "author_name": "stajdi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T15:25:36.423000",
      "content": "<p>Same here, 70th -&gt; 160th… what are we missing? :)</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2125211,
      "author_name": "Deependra Yadav",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-02-01T14:20:46.020000",
      "content": "<p>Some profile's comments are not acceptable. </p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2031267,
      "author_name": "Kunming Xie",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-16T01:13:14.367000",
      "content": "<p>The last several days ,the competition is very intense,many kaggle invoice(new account) come in,and Leaderboard is Rapid change，my team is about 30th+ -&gt; 90th+,it's amazing and confused😟</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2031380,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-16T03:33:13.897000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2031176,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T23:10:50.453000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 2030854,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-11-15T16:54:38.420000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 5,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "2030601": "just days ago, I was about 60th on leader board. now it's 110th.it was a bit surprising to me",
    "2030775": "I just found a post on XiaoHongShu(Chinese Instagram): http://xhslink.com/S6Ttfl\nAnother post for Feedback competition: http://xhslink.com/cFdufl\n------------------------------------Translate for the first link-------------------------------------------\n**Title: Silver medal guaranteed! The latest edition of the Kaggle competition is hot for registration!**\n\n**Full text：**\n- Kaggle gold or silver. If we fail to take the silver medal, we will not charge you. The bronze medal is free.\n- Study Abroad, Background Enhancement, Changing careers to write code\n- Latest data mining competition: open-ended problem - multimodal single-cell integration\n- Enrollment ends: November 9\n- Result time: November 16",
    "2030828": "Hi everyone,\n\nPlease report any suspicions of cheating here: https://www.kaggle.com/contact#/competitions/cheating\n\nWe'll conduct an investigation after the competition ends and remove any teams that have violated the rules of the competition.",
    "2030658": "weird, our team is 28 -> 57. it is something like there was a high score public notebook but we didn't see",
    "2031279": "Yesterday, our team also feel surprise of the large change on the public LB. And then I searched the relevant social platform to see whether there are suspicious organizations or not, and finally I got the same finding with @forcewithme. Although our team shake down a lot (40+->700+) on the private LB which is not going to be changed by removing these suspicious teams, they are unfair for other teams if they do cheating. Hope Kaggle could take a look on it. Thanks.\n\nBy the way, I made the screenshot before they deleted that post. Hope it's helpful.\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F1867317%2F94883091aa43676db80f8f4135652f14%2FSnipaste_2022-11-16_22-37-56.png?generation=1668609530372236&alt=media)",
    "2030812": "This is really disheartening, we've been online since the weekend trying one last sprint, it's going to be a shame to lose to a bunch of fake accounts",
    "2030770": "Seems like some people have a finish of a sprinter in a marathon race. Lost my breath at a critical time :(",
    "2030822": "Disgusting ..... Kaggle needs to ban those players if it is true! ",
    "2030815": "Definitely there’s some cheating going on here @ashleychow @ryanholbrook @danielburkhardt 🤷🏻",
    "2030670": "I was near 20th, but have lost a lot of places in the last few days. I feel a little strange.",
    "2030611": "60 -> 140+ in five days. lol",
    "2030820": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/open-problems-multimodal/discussion/364669 I used to write this discussion post, and I found that most of the methods based on biological information cannot work, which means that I believe top methods are based on ds track or feature engineering aspects. I assume this competition should be based on biologcial ideas, which may lead the cheating not very easily to happen, just like the 1st open problems competition. Now I know my assumption is wrong.",
    "2030732": "Same here, 70th -> 160th... what are we missing? :)",
    "2125211": "Some profile's comments are not acceptable. ",
    "2031267": "The last several days ,the competition is very intense,many kaggle invoice(new account) come in,and Leaderboard is Rapid change，my team is about 30th+ -> 90th+,it's amazing and confused😟",
    "2031380": "",
    "2031176": "",
    "2030854": ""
  }
}