I’ve been on Strava for several years now and basically have a circle of about 100 or so friends sharing comments and kudos. Almost all of them are folks that I’ve swam with, biked with or run with at one point or another. Every once in awhile I’ll see a kudo from someone I don’t know but it’s usually after doing a race and they were a fellow racer.
However, over the last month or two I’ve started noticing kudos in some of my normal workouts (for example an easy 9 mile run this morning) from names I don’t recognize and with a provocative profile picture. If I click through to the person’s profile they have one or two past activities all with another provocative picture that contains a link that reads something like “click here for a good time.” Seems like the profile remains active for 30 minutes to an hour before presumably being pulled down by Strava.
a friend got one yesterday and sent me a message. I found the account, but there is no way to actually report it, but you can flag the pictures. I did that so maybe with common sense they will notice its a solicitation?
You can block the user and it disappears from your Kudos list. I don’t want people thinking I’m interested in that sort of thing. Have had three or four in the last two weeks.
I’ve been on Strava for several years now and basically have a circle of about 100 or so friends sharing comments and kudos. Almost all of them are folks that I’ve swam with, biked with or run with at one point or another. Every once in awhile I’ll see a kudo from someone I don’t know but it’s usually after doing a race and they were a fellow racer.
However, over the last month or two I’ve started noticing kudos in some of my normal workouts (for example an easy 9 mile run this morning) from names I don’t recognize and with a provocative profile picture. If I click through to the person’s profile they have one or two past activities all with another provocative picture that contains a link that reads something like “click here for a good time.” Seems like the profile remains active for 30 minutes to an hour before presumably being pulled down by Strava.
I was just wondering earlier today if it was only me. Glad to see it’s not.
Starting Friday, I’ve been getting one or two per activity posted. I thought I had been flagged to be spammed or something.
Strava needs to implement either a minimum account time or a minimum amount of time worked out with GPS associated before kudos can be given. As is, these accounts just create a manual workout upload and delete it before going on their spam tirade.
I thought about posting about this when I saw one this morning. I was just hoping I was lucky and it was real…oh well. I guess my incredibly mundane runs, bikes, and swims don’t drive the women crazy after all.
I reported my requests the other day. Here’s the email response:
Hello Johnâ€,
Thank you for writing in and bringing this to our attention, and we apologize for the issue with spam. Our team is aware of the profile, and working hard to resolve the situation and prevent future spam. This profile should be removed very shortly, and any kudos they gave will also be deleted.
If you want to remove a Strava user that is currently following you:
Go to your list of followers, which you can access from the ‘Following Me’ tab on your profile page**Find the follower that you’d like to remove***On the website** - click on the gear icon next to their name and select “Remove Follower”****On the App (Mobile) *- click on Followers > then swipe left on the athlete profile and then “remove”.
**If you want to block an athlete: **
*Website: Log in to the Strava website > Go to that athlete’s Profile page > Click the “gear” icon and select “Block Athlete”.*Mobile app: Go to that athlete’s Profile page > Click the … on the top right > Block
I am shocked -SHOCKED- that a male-dominated web service would be targeted by porn ad bots. I mean, what’s next? Spam for performance enhancing drugs and T replacement on athletics-focused sites?
