Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
I’d guess you’re probably right. I get the sense that we’re in the “post-leaderboard” era of Strava. No one I ride with talks about or seems to care about segment leaderboards anymore. Maybe Strava doesn’t either.
Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
Serious question - why do you care?
Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
Serious question - why do you care?
Serious question in answer to your question - why do you care if they care?
To the poster, runs that I’ve flagged as in a vehicle worked. Haven’t done anything with a bike lately.
When you flag it it immediately goes off the leaderboard and a notification is sent to the uploader with the option of changing the ride type or editing out the car bits. The person can also just say “it’s legit” and then nothing happens.
So sounds like they did that. Flag it again and a Strava person will look at it.
Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
Serious question - why do you care?
**Serious question in answer to your question - why do you care if they care? **
To the poster, runs that I’ve flagged as in a vehicle worked. Haven’t done anything with a bike lately.
I’m interested in the motivation of the OP, it interests me how people think and why they do stuff.
And your “answer” is not an answer, just turning it back on me.
I think Strava is a fun way to compete with the people around me. That kind of stuff breaks the system. There are a few segments I do care about and if someone in a car took them, I’d definitely go flag it
Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
Serious question - why do you care?
**Serious question in answer to your question - why do you care if they care? **
To the poster, runs that I’ve flagged as in a vehicle worked. Haven’t done anything with a bike lately.
I’m interested in the motivation of the OP, it interests me how people think and why they do stuff.
And your “answer” is not an answer, just turning it back on me.
Okay, question for you then, how long have you been on Strava and why did you initially join? I feel like segments was one of the key reasons they grew the way they did and became so big among serious cyclists early. I used to love going for Strava segments and myself and numerous friends used to talk about gunning for them and used to do rides aimed just at that, it was a lot of fun and a way to add some competition in a sport we had no other way to compete in. I feel like now though as previous poster said we may be in a post segments era, starting at least when most of the segments became highly wind aided and had to be run under just the right conditions.
I’m interested in the motivation of the OP, it interests me how people think and why they do stuff.
And your “answer” is not an answer, just turning it back on me.
Not the OP, but I flag Strava rides every other week due to someone not turning their computer off when they hop in the car. Why? Because it takes two clicks and maintains an appropriate effort on the leaderboard. Even segments I’ve never done, like on race routes that I’m reviewing for an upcoming race, I flag blatant cheaters.
It’s basically the same reason why I’d want someone cutting the course to be reported and DQed. When people are putting an effort into something, having someone else put no effort into that same thing but come out on top kind of sucks.
Whether or not that person cares, or the people on the leaderboard care, or a person on a forum cares doesn’t really matter. There’s a personal sense of justice involved, I think, regardless of whether or not that feeling extends to anyone else.
Because driving a vehicle is against their terms of use. Because you can “compete” in obscure or logistically difficult formats that would never happen on a weekend race. Because you can compete whenever you want. Because people who ebike or drive also care so much about strava that they unflag their activities so that they remain visible to their followers.
Not the OP either, but competing for the bragging rights to own certain segments can be quite fun among friends. Having an ebike or vehicle occupy the leaderboard is annoying if anything - why not flag it? Its takes like 10 seconds of your life.
Not the OP either, but competing for the bragging rights to own certain segments can be quite fun among friends. Having an ebike or vehicle occupy the leaderboard is annoying if anything - why not flag it? Its takes like 10 seconds of your life.
All of this.
Going for segments is fun, a great intensity workout, and definitely great for smacktalking amongst buddies.
I flag stuff pretty regularly.
Pretty much anytime I notice an “effort†that’s beyond mortal capabilities.
It seems to me that probably 97% of those bogus results are simply from people forgetting to turn off GPS after they get in their car.
More recently I’m seeing what appears to be e-Bikes taking gravel segments, typically uphill ones.
I’d like to think those people are just oblivious, and don’t realize what they’re doing.
It’s irksome that Strava’s “algorithm†doesn’t auto-flag this stuff, especially when it’s so obvious.
That’s one of the (many) things I like about MTB riding -
Hardly ever see BS KOM’s.
(Once in a blue moon you’ll see somebody get a GPS glitch “gift from the Strava godsâ€, but that falls under shit happens)
I don’t work for Strava- this is just my personal speculation as someone who has paid for the service for at least a decade if not a bit longer. I’ve moved all my analytics/planning over to intervals.icu, but still use Strava a social platform, which leads me to my hypothesis.
Strava as a company has taken a ton of VC cash over the years and still haven’t had a liquidity event. They don’t know how to monetize segments and leader boards, so that functionality has really been left to the wayside. They’ve recently announced changes to clubs: https://www.strava.com/rebuilding-clubs and I suspect there’s a lot of pressure to partner with brands / monetize clubs so the investors can get their exit via IPO. Just my two cents.
Did Strava ever fix the issue with multiple segments over the same road? I feel that didn’t help; everyone making new segments up with their club name, or such. I always felt like the popular segments should just be geographically or generically named whenever many segments sat on top of each other in the sabe exact spot.
Okay, question for you then, how long have you been on Strava and why did you initially join? I feel like segments was one of the key reasons they grew the way they did and became so big among serious cyclists early. I used to love going for Strava segments and myself and numerous friends used to talk about gunning for them and used to do rides aimed just at that, it was a lot of fun and a way to add some competition in a sport we had no other way to compete in. I feel like now though as previous poster said we may be in a post segments era, starting at least when most of the segments became highly wind aided and had to be run under just the right conditions.
I am not on Strava or other social media for that matter.
As for why, I’d rather not go into my thoughts on these platforms; I’ll just come off as a troll or a pretentious douche (or likely both)
Okay, question for you then, how long have you been on Strava and why did you initially join? I feel like segments was one of the key reasons they grew the way they did and became so big among serious cyclists early. I used to love going for Strava segments and myself and numerous friends used to talk about gunning for them and used to do rides aimed just at that, it was a lot of fun and a way to add some competition in a sport we had no other way to compete in. I feel like now though as previous poster said we may be in a post segments era, starting at least when most of the segments became highly wind aided and had to be run under just the right conditions.
I am not on Strava or other social media for that matter.
As for why, I’d rather not go into my thoughts on these platforms; I’ll just come off as a troll or a pretentious douche (or likely both)
Aside from the social aspect, if you care nothing for that, the most powerful, but under utililized aspects of Stava is actually the effect of so many athletes biking, running, even open water swimming that leaves heat map trails of previous athletes.
So you can see an open water swim that’s heavily traveled. You can see a trail run in na remote area that has other runners. Making bike routes in new locations is especially beneficial.
I think Strava’s data sets allow for a ton of potential.
Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
Why would they pay people. Strava isn’t real life
We haven’t stopped racing because the data is on Strava saying someone else has already won.
Worry about your own square metre.
Is Strava no longer addressing “flags” on activities which are clearly in a car or other motorized vehicle? I’ve “flagged” several rides on segments over the past 6 months and Strava hasn’t done anything with them. A couple of these are fairly obvious - 30 mph on an uphill segment that beats out previous leaders by minutes, others are people on e-bikes with photos of their e-bike posted to the activity. I’m guessing Strava just doesn’t want to pay for people to review these anymore?
Serious question - why do you care?
**Serious question in answer to your question - why do you care if they care? **
To the poster, runs that I’ve flagged as in a vehicle worked. Haven’t done anything with a bike lately.
I’m interested in the motivation of the OP, it interests me how people think and why they do stuff.
And your “answer” is not an answer, just turning it back on me.
Yeah lurker was just being the dick he is.
I guess I’ve gotten on your nerve before as you’ve noticed and remembered my moniker. Neither yours nor the quality of you comments have ever distinguished themselves enough for me to notice or care. TTFN
the investors can get their exit via IPO. Just my two cents.
Strava hiked prices then laid off over 10% of the workforce earlier this year. According to this article raised over $100m in 2020.
It would not surprise me if they are lining up for a public sale at some point in the near future as investors will want their cash back. Hiking prices/reducing costs is usually a good sign something is in the pipeline.