{
  "id": 81493,
  "title": "Fake profiles in the leaderboard",
  "url": "/competitions/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/81493",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-02-21T23:25:16.218361600Z",
  "votes": 9,
  "comment_count": 6,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>As the competition progress, I notice many fake profiles in the leaderboard and I think the reason is due to the limit on the number of submissions per day and people are trying different blends to boost their score and climb up the leaderboard. I think adding more steps for verification would help in reducing the noise in the leaderboard. Thanks</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "476297",
      "postDate": "02/21/2019 23:25:16",
      "content": "<p>As the competition progress, I notice many fake profiles in the leaderboard and I think the reason is due to the limit on the number of submissions per day and people are trying different blends to boost their score and climb up the leaderboard. I think adding more steps for verification would help in reducing the noise in the leaderboard. Thanks</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As the competition progress, I notice many fake profiles in the leaderboard and I think the reason is due to the limit on the number of submissions per day and people are trying different blends to boost their score and climb up the leaderboard. I think adding more steps for verification would help in reducing the noise in the leaderboard. Thanks",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "477846",
      "postDate": "02/25/2019 11:02:29",
      "content": "<p>Is there any profile you suspect ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Is there any profile you suspect ?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "477855",
      "postDate": "02/25/2019 11:33:06",
      "content": "<p>They can try manual outlier detection based on their predicted probability.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "They can try manual outlier detection based on their predicted probability.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "478099",
      "postDate": "02/25/2019 18:25:22",
      "content": "<p>actually, there are a lot but I don't know how far my predictions are true !!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "actually, there are a lot but I don't know how far my predictions are true !!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "478101",
      "postDate": "02/25/2019 18:26:40",
      "content": "<p>I think it's a great idea but manual outlier detection takes a lot of effort and I don't know whether this is feasible in practice. I think something of this(<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube/identifying-potential-fake-accounts-on-kaggle\">https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube/identifying-potential-fake-accounts-on-kaggle</a> ) should be implemented</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I think it's a great idea but manual outlier detection takes a lot of effort and I don't know whether this is feasible in practice. I think something of this(https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube/identifying-potential-fake-accounts-on-kaggle ) should be implemented",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "478419",
      "postDate": "02/26/2019 06:01:10",
      "content": "<p>good idea but something needs to be done...for sure</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "good idea but something needs to be done...for sure",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "478421",
      "postDate": "02/26/2019 06:01:30",
      "content": "<p>this is really disturbing though</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "this is really disturbing though",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 477846,
      "author_name": "frtgnn",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/25/2019 11:02:29",
      "content": "<p>Is there any profile you suspect ?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 478099,
          "author_name": "sriharshaatyam",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/25/2019 18:25:22",
          "content": "<p>actually, there are a lot but I don't know how far my predictions are true !!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 478421,
          "author_name": "frtgnn",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/26/2019 06:01:30",
          "content": "<p>this is really disturbing though</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 477855,
      "author_name": "youhanlee",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/25/2019 11:33:06",
      "content": "<p>They can try manual outlier detection based on their predicted probability.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 478101,
          "author_name": "sriharshaatyam",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/25/2019 18:26:40",
          "content": "<p>I think it's a great idea but manual outlier detection takes a lot of effort and I don't know whether this is feasible in practice. I think something of this(<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube/identifying-potential-fake-accounts-on-kaggle\">https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube/identifying-potential-fake-accounts-on-kaggle</a> ) should be implemented</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 478419,
          "author_name": "frtgnn",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/26/2019 06:01:10",
          "content": "<p>good idea but something needs to be done...for sure</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "476297": "As the competition progress, I notice many fake profiles in the leaderboard and I think the reason is due to the limit on the number of submissions per day and people are trying different blends to boost their score and climb up the leaderboard. I think adding more steps for verification would help in reducing the noise in the leaderboard. Thanks",
    "477846": "Is there any profile you suspect ?",
    "477855": "They can try manual outlier detection based on their predicted probability.",
    "478099": "actually, there are a lot but I don't know how far my predictions are true !!",
    "478101": "I think it's a great idea but manual outlier detection takes a lot of effort and I don't know whether this is feasible in practice. I think something of this(https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube/identifying-potential-fake-accounts-on-kaggle ) should be implemented",
    "478419": "good idea but something needs to be done...for sure",
    "478421": "this is really disturbing though"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}