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numerix 2014-10-07 13:07:47 UTC #1

Okay, this IS a bug:
After login I am able to delete, hide and edit comments below the problemsets of ANY problem.
As far as I know, I'm just a normal user without any special rights ...

cyclops 2014-10-07 14:22:08 UTC #2

That ability is given to contest setters. (The policy seems a bit strange to me, but I haven't seen it being abused.) Maybe your account got modified somehow. Do you see "add contest" on the menu on the left side of pages that wasn't there before? Or maybe there is some other reason. And if it happened to all problem setters, that could be undesirable.

numerix 2014-10-07 15:09:00 UTC #3

Thanks for explanation. Yes, there is a button "add contest" after login, but I can't remember if it was there at the time of my last login.
So, no problem for me, but I do not understand why it is given to all those that are allowed to add contests.

In that case it should really be changed.

leppyr64 2014-10-07 17:20:55 UTC #4

I have this permission too. Not sure how it was bestowed upon me but I have had it for a long time.

francky 2014-10-07 17:31:43 UTC #5

I remember tjandra got this permission too, some months before I was EBM ; as far I know it was a "bug", corrected.
I think only admins have the list of contest setters, and EBmembers.
They are making some cleaning up, this can be part of the answer...

Beside that "features", I'm really glad to see numerix again. This delete all disappointments that we are encountered.

kokosek 2015-01-20 01:34:18 UTC #6

It is a bug and I've reported it some time ago when I've first read this topic (or when numerix emailed me, I can't recall).
Since it probably wasn't abused much, it probably has a low priority and won't be fixed soon.
Please inform me, though, if you find it abused.

leppyr64 2015-01-20 01:37:01 UTC #7

I'm probably the most likely abuser. Any time I browse a problem that has lots of spoilers or useless comments I delete them (or hide them if they're questionably useful)

kokosek 2015-01-20 01:46:04 UTC #8

Of course it can be used in such situations. We're all logical here, I think. You can keep doing that. In fact, I'm going to revisit all problems on main SPOJ (veeeeery slowly) when I finish with those on SPOJPL and remove all comments that are useless (here are some examples: http://www.spoj.com/problems/CYCLOPS/#faq http://www.spoj.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22445)
So I'm grateful for every comment you delete.

In the future, EB members will still be able to do such a thing, but allowing all CSs might be overused.