[AndrewOMartin]

On skim-reading the article it seems they were banned from submitting entries to a competition server for 12 months because they made a significant number of submissions.

It's arguable that they were gaming the system somewhat, but unless a limit was explicitly defined then this just seems like they were doing a lot of exploration in the area.

Imagine if you published some research showing you'd made something that did something cool, but then people lost respect for you because you'd made a lot of previous attempts.

[interknot]

The specified limit was 2 submissions per week, according to the people organizing the competition:

http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-...

[kahnjw]

1. Third paragraph: "twice a week" 2. They registered multiple accounts to get around the limit. That removes almost all doubt that the submitter knew he/she was cheating