Strava flagging

@starfruit ditto this issue for me! Occasionally I run into segments with well over 10 motor vehicle at the top (for me these are usually road segments that are near the parking lot of popular MTB areas. The MTB guys forget to stop strava.) It's really frustrating to have to wait days to finish cleaning up one segment.

I do think it makes sense to have the limit, otherwise a user could do some damage. A disgruntled user or "punk" kid could start flagging everything just for kicks.

So I think the best solution would be for Strava to implement a behind-the-scenes higher limit for super-users like us. We could simply request it. Someone at Strava takes a look at our account to make sure we're legit, and raises our limit commensurate to our track record (age of our account, etc.). I would propose an initial raise to 100/day for those who qualify. For those who are really putting in time cleaning the database, they can request a further raise to 500 or 1000/day which is then evaluated on a case by case basis.

Then, when someone gets throttled for flagging, instead of a generic error, it can say something like:

"You have reached your daily limit for flagging. If you feel you need a higher limit, please get in touch with us at ZZZZZ and give us a detailed explanation of what you are doing and how many daily flags you need."

I propose mods move this thread to Features Suggestion and open for voting.

Same issue for me. It's annoying that strava seems to prevent us from doing their job. I am rely thinking of canceling my paid plan. I am a strava member since 2013 and I cannot flag more than some 10 activities. There are electric riders that simply don't care about stating their ride as "E-Bike-Ride".

I've been debating the same.  I can't tell if its disheartening, disenfranchising or disappointing.  Or all three.  Especially since the solutions are likely quite easy.

An auto flag feature would be a start allowing users to concentrate on the more difficult ones. Shouldn't be hard to detect the obviously impossible rides and runs (2s 1km times etc) or those that are under the wrong category (ride as a run). It just needs to prompt that user to check what they have submitted.

Couln't agree more. If Strava wants users to do their job, I don't get it but fine, select the good and right ones and let them do it.

Not only being able to flag all the unlegit times but I believe there should be either a better criteria to create segments (there are too many and 90% is not relevant) or have official segments of real relevant sections, created by super users and serious riders from strava community. There are so many really shor segments, or segments that end before the actual finish of the climb.

But above all, we need oficial leaderboards for riders that take it serious, I mean, HR and/or Power data. Phones are not accurate and keep giving people good standing in leaderboards with unrealistic speed and no data to support. Problem is that is the majority in some areas, and we can't flag them. We need more than 10 a day.

Check out the post I made here: Modify Activity Flagging Process - Strava Community Hub.  Please add your kudos/comments to that thread.

Dealing with the other side right now (false flags). I think the solution should be:

-only members with 100+ rides can flag, maybe only premium members with 100+ rides

-no limit on flags

-if you are caught serially false flagging (no good reasons, following the same person and flagging their activities) your rights to flag are removed

-”believe by default” - if someone marks activity as all right after being flagged the activity stays until it’s reviews by Strava team;

This way users who do a lot of good will flagging will not have limits but abusers and stalkers will quickly lose their rights and will need to pay for premium and log 100+ days to bully someone out of leader boards again.