{
  "id": 2319,
  "title": "ACCUSE Kaggle of Double Standard",
  "url": "/competitions/FacebookRecruiting/discussion/2319",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2012-08-05T08:40:55.310Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>Sorry for have your attention for a few minutes.</p>\r\n<p>I am from one team attending the KDD Cup 2012 competition. Our team is disqualified for prize due to a multiple account problem. It is our fault to run multiple accounts so I apologize for it and accept the decision.</p>\r\n<p>BUT, please look at this page: <a href=\"http://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard\">\r\nhttp://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard</a>, from which we can see the team “dsa!” got the score 0.80508 in Public Leaderboard but only had a result of 0.79892 in Private Leaderboard!!&nbsp; Almost lost 0.006</p>\r\n<p>The only possible reason for this is that they did not select their best answer. We can infer that only the two top ranked teams have this ability to get such a high performance. So it is obviously that one of the teams in Catch up @ National Taiwan University\r\n and Opera Solutions were also running multiple accounts.</p>\r\n<p>WHY only our team was punished? Obviously there are different rules for different people!!</p>\r\n<p>The competition has been closed and I don’t want to change any results.</p>\r\n<p>I just want everyone know that Kaggle has <strong>Double Standard for different people</strong>!!</p>",
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      "id": "12926",
      "postDate": "08/05/2012 08:40:55",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for have your attention for a few minutes.</p>\r\n<p>I am from one team attending the KDD Cup 2012 competition. Our team is disqualified for prize due to a multiple account problem. It is our fault to run multiple accounts so I apologize for it and accept the decision.</p>\r\n<p>BUT, please look at this page: <a href=\"http://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard\">\r\nhttp://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard</a>, from which we can see the team “dsa!” got the score 0.80508 in Public Leaderboard but only had a result of 0.79892 in Private Leaderboard!!&nbsp; Almost lost 0.006</p>\r\n<p>The only possible reason for this is that they did not select their best answer. We can infer that only the two top ranked teams have this ability to get such a high performance. So it is obviously that one of the teams in Catch up @ National Taiwan University\r\n and Opera Solutions were also running multiple accounts.</p>\r\n<p>WHY only our team was punished? Obviously there are different rules for different people!!</p>\r\n<p>The competition has been closed and I don’t want to change any results.</p>\r\n<p>I just want everyone know that Kaggle has <strong>Double Standard for different people</strong>!!</p>",
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    {
      "id": "12948",
      "postDate": "08/06/2012 01:31:50",
      "content": "<p>There is undocumented feature in Kaggle machinery : you can look into the past and check public and private scored at any particular date.<br>\r\nSomething like:<br>\r\nhttp://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard?asOf=2012-5-30<br>\r\nor <br>\r\nhttp://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard/public?asOf=2012-5-20<br>\r\nDoes not look like dca! had better private score.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 12948,
      "author_name": "ccccat",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/06/2012 01:31:50",
      "content": "<p>There is undocumented feature in Kaggle machinery : you can look into the past and check public and private scored at any particular date.<br>\r\nSomething like:<br>\r\nhttp://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard?asOf=2012-5-30<br>\r\nor <br>\r\nhttp://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/leaderboard/public?asOf=2012-5-20<br>\r\nDoes not look like dca! had better private score.</p>",
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    }
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