Curious as to why a non premium member can only “create” a flag but nothing happens to the rider in question. We have a couple of strava trolls in our region that record their rides as normal bikes but are obviously on e bikes. The useless strava algorithm does nothing to them. Tried to take the diplomatic approach but they continued to do what they do. So I started flagging their rides. This led them to blocking me and continuing to record as regular bikes on e bikes. So I couldn’t flag their rides anymore. Others have tried to flag their rides but they are not premium subscribers. All that happens is a message pops up that says your flag has been created. And the ride stands. Pretty much all of our climbing segments are now irrelevant. Thanks strava!
Flagging rides as a non premium member
+2We had a guy down here in Tampa doing the exact same thing... taking local legends and coming tantalizingly close to getting KOM's on his e-bike. You need to read this help article: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/206522304-How-to-Report-Cheating-on-Strava I collected all the info like they said and opened a ticket, and worded it nicely.
They basically erased him from the leaderboards and set his profile page to private. This took less than two days from me opening the ticket(!) I was very pleased. I hope it works out for you
+2Yes, I did the same thing. Compiled links to his rides, including pictures from the rides with the e-bike. It worked for a year or so but now he’s back. Not sure if it was a 1 year ban or what but since he blocked me I cannot take any further action. Beyond frustrating and ruins the integrity of the leaderboards and the strava experience in general...
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