{
  "id": 226290,
  "title": "Can Kaggle give credit for this competition?",
  "url": "/competitions/plant-pathology-2021-fgvc8/discussion/226290",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-03-16T00:30:53.844927Z",
  "votes": 30,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Research competitions are another common type of competition on Kaggle. Research competitions feature problems which are more experimental than featured competition problems.</p>\n<p>Research competitions <strong>do not</strong> usually offer <strong>prizes</strong> or <strong>points</strong> due to their experimental nature. But they offer an opportunity to work on problems which may not have a clean or easy solution and which are integral to a specific domain or area in a slightly less competitive environment.</p>\n<p>Points:This competition does <strong>not</strong> award ranking points<br>\nTiers  :This competition does <strong>not</strong> count towards tiers</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1239719",
      "postDate": "03/16/2021 00:30:53",
      "content": "<p>Research competitions are another common type of competition on Kaggle. Research competitions feature problems which are more experimental than featured competition problems.</p>\n<p>Research competitions <strong>do not</strong> usually offer <strong>prizes</strong> or <strong>points</strong> due to their experimental nature. But they offer an opportunity to work on problems which may not have a clean or easy solution and which are integral to a specific domain or area in a slightly less competitive environment.</p>\n<p>Points:This competition does <strong>not</strong> award ranking points<br>\nTiers  :This competition does <strong>not</strong> count towards tiers</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Research competitions are another common type of competition on Kaggle. Research competitions feature problems which are more experimental than featured competition problems.\n\nResearch competitions **do not** usually offer **prizes** or **points** due to their experimental nature. But they offer an opportunity to work on problems which may not have a clean or easy solution and which are integral to a specific domain or area in a slightly less competitive environment.\n\nPoints:This competition does **not** award ranking points\nTiers  :This competition does **not** count towards tiers",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1239942",
      "postDate": "03/16/2021 06:28:19",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/prahladmehandiratta\" target=\"_blank\">@prahladmehandiratta</a> Thanks for raising this question .I strongly feel Kaggle should award points for such research competitions to promote high quality research in computer vision . Also providing points will attract more kagglers to contribute</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "prahladmehandiratta Thanks for raising this question .I strongly feel Kaggle should award points for such research competitions to promote high quality research in computer vision . Also providing points will attract more kagglers to contribute",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1251796",
      "postDate": "03/25/2021 06:23:23",
      "content": "<p>Yess Its a good idea to encourage the beginners by giving ranking points</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yess Its a good idea to encourage the beginners by giving ranking points",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1254230",
      "postDate": "03/27/2021 12:56:48",
      "content": "<p>I completely don't understand why there's no ranking point or tier rewards associated with research code competition. The research code competition is challenging and valuable just as any other competition in kaggle, but why the organizer won't give any reward in these competitions?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I completely don't understand why there's no ranking point or tier rewards associated with research code competition. The research code competition is challenging and valuable just as any other competition in kaggle, but why the organizer won't give any reward in these competitions?",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1239942,
      "author_name": "usharengaraju",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/16/2021 06:28:19",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/prahladmehandiratta\" target=\"_blank\">@prahladmehandiratta</a> Thanks for raising this question .I strongly feel Kaggle should award points for such research competitions to promote high quality research in computer vision . Also providing points will attract more kagglers to contribute</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1251796,
          "author_name": "vinaykakara",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/25/2021 06:23:23",
          "content": "<p>Yess Its a good idea to encourage the beginners by giving ranking points</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1254230,
      "author_name": "ytepzhi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/27/2021 12:56:48",
      "content": "<p>I completely don't understand why there's no ranking point or tier rewards associated with research code competition. The research code competition is challenging and valuable just as any other competition in kaggle, but why the organizer won't give any reward in these competitions?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1239719": "Research competitions are another common type of competition on Kaggle. Research competitions feature problems which are more experimental than featured competition problems.\n\nResearch competitions **do not** usually offer **prizes** or **points** due to their experimental nature. But they offer an opportunity to work on problems which may not have a clean or easy solution and which are integral to a specific domain or area in a slightly less competitive environment.\n\nPoints:This competition does **not** award ranking points\nTiers  :This competition does **not** count towards tiers",
    "1239942": "prahladmehandiratta Thanks for raising this question .I strongly feel Kaggle should award points for such research competitions to promote high quality research in computer vision . Also providing points will attract more kagglers to contribute",
    "1251796": "Yess Its a good idea to encourage the beginners by giving ranking points",
    "1254230": "I completely don't understand why there's no ranking point or tier rewards associated with research code competition. The research code competition is challenging and valuable just as any other competition in kaggle, but why the organizer won't give any reward in these competitions?"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}