Opt out of leaderboards

[mpmurphy00]

I previously posted similar in the leader boards forum:

I would like opt out from including my activities on leader boards, by default, or ... make it an opt in feature for general users instead of opt out.

One comment I got back previously was to change privacy settings. Also, coming into an individual activity after the fact an marking it 'virtual' will disable the data going into leader boards. But these not what I'm looking for here.

1. I'm not concerned with privacy on this. I don't care who sees my times on anything. And I typically want activities to remain public: they sometimes are to show my own explorations on bicycle, with a few photos and some commentary of what I found there, for a given map track. This is one of my uses of Strava and what keeps me engaged in useful exercise.
2. I don't want to manually edit everything as virtual. I do want mileage tracked and on which specific bike. I may look at my own times, or disregard if I can see they are not legitimate.

Here is what I don't like about leader boards: if anything goes wrong, I potentially have to hear back from someone about stealing their KOM. 3 historical cases

1. While new to Strava,  in an accident. Traveled to hospital and home in vehicles. Recording was running for several days. I saved it as showing where and when the accident occurred. Received a fake KOM.
2. Erroneous empty recording of an 80+ mile activity by the android phone app. I reproduced it with gotoes.org. Next day I notice I have multiple KOMs
3. Poor GPS signal in the woods puts me on a different trail (a tough climb on gravel and a few erosion control steps) from the one I actually rode that day (easy). I am currently 4th overall and best of the year for a segment I wasn't on.

The opinion that has grown on me is that leader boards game is fun concept but doesn't actually work well. But I'm forced into a game I am not interested in playing.

Please provide opt out.

[torbjornd]

On occations the GPS track of an activity might be incorrect (due to lost signal or signal bounce). The personal records might then be updated based on the incorrect data. There should be a function for excluding the activity from personal record (and optionally segments). This might be used instead of making the activity private, cropping the GPS track and deleting the existing activity and creating a manual activity.

[KerkepadRider]

Agree with torbjornd - where I ride there are many roads in forests running close and parallel to mountain bike tracks (Strava segments) and on too many occasions they are confused because of poor GPS. Why is it not possible to simply delete the incorrect segment?

Strongly support opt out idea. Not at all interested in Leaderboards (only PR) and tedious that Garmin requires public setting for PRs to recognise Strava Live Segments, thus discounting all my previous private PRs. Managing Strava Live Segments is an area that needs big improvement by Strava and Garmin, Wahoo etc.

[Jane]

Hello,

Hello. We wanted to let you know that your idea submission from last August, regarding opting out of segment leaderboards, has received little support from the Community and will not be added to our Product Roadmap in the foreseeable future.  The idea submission will be archived.  

As a reminder, the best workaround to achieve this, is to change the privacy setting on your activity to either "followers" or "only me".  Both of these settings will prevent your activity times from appearing on public segment leaderboards.

Please note that your feedback is valuable to Strava. As stated in our Community Idea Guidelines, we receive many idea submissions each week, and realistically, there may be various reasons that prevent us from including an idea on our Product Roadmap.  

We want to thank you for taking the time to submit your idea and we look forward to your continued contributions to the Strava Community.  

[mpmurphy00]

Today's KOM. I have no intention of editing this activity. Anyone who complains will be referred here.

[AP95]

I have a mid-drive pedal assist e-bike in addition to my road bike. I count all cycling miles ridden towards my annual goal because it’s “for the love of the sport.” I would like my e-bike rides to show up in my activities so my friends can see them; however, if I choose e-bike category, those miles don’t count towards my annual progress. If I change the category to “ride”, the activity counts toward my goal. Since it’s an e-bike I do not want to be on leaderboards.

Currently, this feature does not exist and I’ve seen it discussed on Reddit, so there is a clear desire for it.

[Jane]

Hi - thanks for your post!

Here's a couple of options you can consider to achieve this:

1) Set your E-bike rides to activity type "ride" but change the activity visibility to "Followers". This will prevent those efforts from appearing on public leaderboards, but your Strava Followers will still see them. See more information here

2) Continue to make your Ebike rides as activity type "ebike". Keep in mind that E-bike activities count towards YTD totals under "ride" on the Athlete profile. This happens even though the E-bike only total may also appear if it's in the top 4 activities. More information on the Profile page stats is here