{
  "id": 81902,
  "title": "Duplicate Accounts",
  "url": "/competitions/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/81902",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-02-26T00:28:08.190892700Z",
  "votes": 4,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>As the competition comes to a close, I see the number of teams going up.  I take this to mean that people are creating fake accounts in order to submit more than the 5 submission limit put on this competition.  I was wondering if Kaggle does anything to detect these fake accounts and remove them from the final private leader board.  Also, if people are using these fake accounts, I believe that they would be over fitting to the public leader board.  What are your thoughts on this and how do you think Kaggle can do a better job with this problem?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "478262",
      "postDate": "02/26/2019 00:28:08",
      "content": "<p>As the competition comes to a close, I see the number of teams going up.  I take this to mean that people are creating fake accounts in order to submit more than the 5 submission limit put on this competition.  I was wondering if Kaggle does anything to detect these fake accounts and remove them from the final private leader board.  Also, if people are using these fake accounts, I believe that they would be over fitting to the public leader board.  What are your thoughts on this and how do you think Kaggle can do a better job with this problem?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As the competition comes to a close, I see the number of teams going up.  I take this to mean that people are creating fake accounts in order to submit more than the 5 submission limit put on this competition.  I was wondering if Kaggle does anything to detect these fake accounts and remove them from the final private leader board.  Also, if people are using these fake accounts, I believe that they would be over fitting to the public leader board.  What are your thoughts on this and how do you think Kaggle can do a better job with this problem?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "478383",
      "postDate": "02/26/2019 04:58:25",
      "content": "<p>Hi Kyle,</p>\n\n<p>Kaggle does have anti-cheating detection methods that are run at the end of the competition that remove rule violators. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Kyle,\n\nKaggle does have anti-cheating detection methods that are run at the end of the competition that remove rule violators.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "479081",
      "postDate": "02/27/2019 00:49:59",
      "content": "<p>I guess if None, we have a new Kaggle competition here</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I guess if None, we have a new Kaggle competition here",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 478383,
      "author_name": "addisonhoward",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/26/2019 04:58:25",
      "content": "<p>Hi Kyle,</p>\n\n<p>Kaggle does have anti-cheating detection methods that are run at the end of the competition that remove rule violators. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 479081,
      "author_name": "torrez",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/27/2019 00:49:59",
      "content": "<p>I guess if None, we have a new Kaggle competition here</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "478262": "As the competition comes to a close, I see the number of teams going up.  I take this to mean that people are creating fake accounts in order to submit more than the 5 submission limit put on this competition.  I was wondering if Kaggle does anything to detect these fake accounts and remove them from the final private leader board.  Also, if people are using these fake accounts, I believe that they would be over fitting to the public leader board.  What are your thoughts on this and how do you think Kaggle can do a better job with this problem?",
    "478383": "Hi Kyle,\n\nKaggle does have anti-cheating detection methods that are run at the end of the competition that remove rule violators.",
    "479081": "I guess if None, we have a new Kaggle competition here"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}