This post is a continuation of this post which in turn was caused by this post by @group16. There I also pointed out the reasons why we should fight with it. After I've posted my previous post the cleaning has been started. However, it has been stopped after a while and there are still a lot of bots on the LB. I decided to create a full list of them. next, you will see a list of these bots with their current location on private LB, and with a link to each participant or participants, if this is a team.
\nI'm writing this post at 10:40 PM (Moscow) / 02:40 AM (UTC) of 08.18.2020. There are 3319 teams in the competition at this moment. This topic might be changed according to new data.
\nHow have I detected these people? There are a few criteria:
\nI would like to direct your attention to the fact that 120 teams based on these criteria have already been kicked out of the competition.
\nPlease note that the presence of one full-fledged account in the team doesn't guarantee the legitimacy of the entire team, rather, on the contrary-one or two empty accounts may indicate the illegitimacy of the entire team since these accounts will receive dishonest medals and they can then be sold. In this case I pointed out links to all team members, even those who are clearly not a bot.
\nHere is it:
\nI was writing it quickly enough, so I could make an error in the links. Feel free to correct me in the comments if you notice this, but first check the links with the command that is located to the left.
\nI can't say for sure that they are all bots or crooks. This is a presumption of innocence. Therefore, I can't force the organizers to delete them, but I can help them pay attention to them. Cleaning should be carried out to the end.
", "messages": [ { "id": 976415, "postDate": "2020-08-18T20:37:39.890Z", "content": "This post is a continuation of this post which in turn was caused by this post by @group16. There I also pointed out the reasons why we should fight with it. After I've posted my previous post the cleaning has been started. However, it has been stopped after a while and there are still a lot of bots on the LB. I decided to create a full list of them. next, you will see a list of these bots with their current location on private LB, and with a link to each participant or participants, if this is a team.
\nI'm writing this post at 10:40 PM (Moscow) / 02:40 AM (UTC) of 08.18.2020. There are 3319 teams in the competition at this moment. This topic might be changed according to new data.
\nHow have I detected these people? There are a few criteria:
\nI would like to direct your attention to the fact that 120 teams based on these criteria have already been kicked out of the competition.
\nPlease note that the presence of one full-fledged account in the team doesn't guarantee the legitimacy of the entire team, rather, on the contrary-one or two empty accounts may indicate the illegitimacy of the entire team since these accounts will receive dishonest medals and they can then be sold. In this case I pointed out links to all team members, even those who are clearly not a bot.
\nHere is it:
\nI was writing it quickly enough, so I could make an error in the links. Feel free to correct me in the comments if you notice this, but first check the links with the command that is located to the left.
\nI can't say for sure that they are all bots or crooks. This is a presumption of innocence. Therefore, I can't force the organizers to delete them, but I can help them pay attention to them. Cleaning should be carried out to the end.
", "rawMarkdown": "This post is a continuation [of this post](https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/175521) which in turn was caused by [this post](https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/175156) by @group16. There I also pointed out the reasons why we should fight with it. After I've posted my previous post the cleaning has been started. However, it has been stopped after a while and there are still a lot of bots on the LB. I decided to create a full list of them. next, you will see a list of these bots with their current location on private LB, and with a link to each participant or participants, if this is a team.\n\nI'm writing this post at 10:40 PM (Moscow) / 02:40 AM (UTC) of 08.18.2020. There are 3319 teams in the competition at this moment. This topic might be changed according to new data.\n\nHow have I detected these people? There are a few criteria:\n* Almost empty profile of a user or users (avatar doesn't count)\n* Small number of submits\n* If the team has a few empty profiles.\n\n**I would like to direct your attention to the fact that 120 teams based on these criteria have already been kicked out of the competition.**\n\nPlease note that the presence of one full-fledged account in the team doesn't guarantee the legitimacy of the entire team, rather, on the contrary-one or two empty accounts may indicate the illegitimacy of the entire team since these accounts will receive dishonest medals and they can then be sold. In this case I pointed out links to all team members, even those who are clearly not a bot.\n\nHere is it:\n* 68 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/sunbaolin1994) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/zlpzlp1) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/zongyaozhao) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/pineapplewang) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/garciac)\n* 70 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/sifanwangbirmingham)\n* 111 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/abc1233124)\n* 121 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/yolo1996) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/huanghuangzhang) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/dengbowen) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/h0ngxuanli) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/zangyuanru)\n* 129 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/prk9009)\n* 141 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/tazkhan)\n* 163 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/stevenyin) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/bigbirdman) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/liezh65) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/clarker) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/elogye)\n* 175 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/eypakpinar)\n* 217 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/mr3543)\n* 218 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/vedkumarpatel) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/kspatel)\n* 240 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/jiuntianrobot)\n* 256 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/ammehizmeti) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/cemsina) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/fatmazumrutyilmaz) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/betlakku)\n* 268 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/nakamotorist)\n* 285 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/anglisbu) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/machrust) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/thompsone) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/bigdatawolf) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/carolhan)\n* 303 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/nilsgessert) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/marcelbengs)\n* 307 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/qwert217)\n* 309 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/browny01) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/davisy01) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/miller01) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/wilson66) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/moore8)\n* 310 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/rishiacharya)\n* 317 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/iscuisine)\n* 324 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle1280) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/stevenjianghx) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/nibolin) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/daytonight) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/gigantice)\n* 325 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/huangba) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/sunwings) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/tyk23333) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/felixh32) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/masterduck)\n* 327 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/polomarco)\n* 332 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/polomarco)\n* 341 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/danielmartinez96)\n* 344 | [1](https://www.kaggle.com/holo88) [2](https://www.kaggle.com/tomacs) [3](https://www.kaggle.com/whitoor) [4](https://www.kaggle.com/harriess) [5](https://www.kaggle.com/martinee)\n\nI was writing it quickly enough, so I could make an error in the links. Feel free to correct me in the comments if you notice this, but first check the links with the command that is located to the left.\n\n**I can't say for sure that they are all bots or crooks. This is a presumption of innocence. Therefore, I can't force the organizers to delete them, but I can help them pay attention to them. Cleaning should be carried out to the end.**", "votes": 18 }, { "id": 976518, "postDate": "2020-08-18T23:26:26.063Z", "content": "I don't think it is a good idea to do a \"witch hunt\". I think it is better to let Kaggle ban the bots/cheaters etc. They are competent. I feel it is better for us to just focus on the competition, discussing about methods/strategies and learning.
", "rawMarkdown": "I don't think it is a good idea to do a \"witch hunt\". I think it is better to let Kaggle ban the bots/cheaters etc. They are competent. I feel it is better for us to just focus on the competition, discussing about methods/strategies and learning.", "votes": 6, "replies": [ { "id": 976837, "postDate": "2020-08-19T06:02:23.907Z", "content": "I agree. However, I've been focusing on this competition for more than a month. Now it has ended. Now it's time to discuss the leaderboard. It's a normal process that follows after each competition. And often participants and enthusiasts of such discussions are the participants themselves. Usually, we are talking about something else, such as Yolo in Global Wheat Detection, but this time the topic is different. This post got all our attention, and now we can't ignore it. Kaggle has always had such a problem but now it's a perfect time to solve it.
", "rawMarkdown": "I agree. However, I've been focusing on this competition for more than a month. Now it has ended. Now it's time to discuss the leaderboard. It's a normal process that follows after each competition. And often participants and enthusiasts of such discussions are the participants themselves. Usually, we are talking about something else, such as Yolo in Global Wheat Detection, but this time the topic is different. [This post](https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/175156) got all our attention, and now we can't ignore it. Kaggle has always had such a problem but now it's a perfect time to solve it.", "votes": 2 }, { "id": 976997, "postDate": "2020-08-19T08:11:19.433Z", "content": "I think its a great idea. One thing you have not seen is anyone trying to defend themselves. Because you are going after the blatantly obvious ones, and they know they are a fraud. I made a list, in another thread, of users I found in \"class\" at angtk.com, then took those users and created a subgraph of anyone they have teamed with, and many of them are also on your list. There are more though, after several medals, they will have a profile pic for example, either its sold at that point or the person has learned to evolve. One thing you will typically not see however, is any posts or comments.
", "rawMarkdown": "I think its a great idea. One thing you have not seen is anyone trying to defend themselves. Because you are going after the blatantly obvious ones, and they know they are a fraud. I made a list, in another thread, of users I found in \"class\" at angtk.com, then took those users and created a subgraph of anyone they have teamed with, and many of them are also on your list. There are more though, after several medals, they will have a profile pic for example, either its sold at that point or the person has learned to evolve. One thing you will typically not see however, is any posts or comments.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 977016, "postDate": "2020-08-19T08:28:20.273Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "votes": -2, "isDeleted": true } ] }, { "id": 977907, "postDate": "2020-08-19T19:38:33.270Z", "content": "By now (19/08/2020 21:00 GMT) 120 teams have been removed already (since the competition end) - 45 of them marked as '[Deleted]'
ps: If you are interested to see the individual teams check my shake-up report.
", "rawMarkdown": "By now (19/08/2020 21:00 GMT) **120** teams have been removed already (since the competition end) - **45** of them marked as ` '[Deleted]' ` \n\nps: If you are interested to see the individual teams check my shake-up report. ", "votes": 2 }, { "id": 980418, "postDate": "2020-08-21T15:22:46.320Z", "content": "Hey , you will make the problem worse.
\nDoes it mean everyone is a cheater unless they share their solutions? They're doing their research or their work, and they don't have time to play wizard-hunting games with you.Your irrational behavior will affect their work and even their life. Stop labeling someone a cheater.👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
I don't think it is a good idea to do a \"witch hunt\". I think it is better to let Kaggle ban the bots/cheaters etc. They are competent. I feel it is better for us to just focus on the competition, discussing about methods/strategies and learning.
", "votes": 6, "replies": [ { "id": 976837, "author_name": "Vadim Timakin", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-08-19T06:02:23.907000", "content": "I agree. However, I've been focusing on this competition for more than a month. Now it has ended. Now it's time to discuss the leaderboard. It's a normal process that follows after each competition. And often participants and enthusiasts of such discussions are the participants themselves. Usually, we are talking about something else, such as Yolo in Global Wheat Detection, but this time the topic is different. This post got all our attention, and now we can't ignore it. Kaggle has always had such a problem but now it's a perfect time to solve it.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [] }, { "id": 976997, "author_name": "Signal", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-08-19T08:11:19.433000", "content": "I think its a great idea. One thing you have not seen is anyone trying to defend themselves. Because you are going after the blatantly obvious ones, and they know they are a fraud. I made a list, in another thread, of users I found in \"class\" at angtk.com, then took those users and created a subgraph of anyone they have teamed with, and many of them are also on your list. There are more though, after several medals, they will have a profile pic for example, either its sold at that point or the person has learned to evolve. One thing you will typically not see however, is any posts or comments.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 977016, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-08-19T08:28:20.273000", "content": "", "votes": -2, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 977907, "author_name": "Ioannis M", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-08-19T19:38:33.270000", "content": "By now (19/08/2020 21:00 GMT) 120 teams have been removed already (since the competition end) - 45 of them marked as '[Deleted]'
ps: If you are interested to see the individual teams check my shake-up report.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [] }, { "id": 980418, "author_name": "blacksails", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-08-21T15:22:46.320000", "content": "Hey , you will make the problem worse.
\nDoes it mean everyone is a cheater unless they share their solutions? They're doing their research or their work, and they don't have time to play wizard-hunting games with you.Your irrational behavior will affect their work and even their life. Stop labeling someone a cheater.👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎