Hey @Safesegments, thanks for your post! There's actually already an idea in our ideas board that suggests the same thing, show your support by voting on it and commenting if you agree.
I disagree with this idea. If your activity is private, then there is no way for other people to know whether the activity is legit. How would someone know whether someone was driving in a car or riding an e-bike to take the KOM? The only way these things can be addressed is if the activities are viewable by other users.
Totally agree. I can write an example as well. On a Segment (normal 'bike ride' segment) someone took the KOM with an e-bike last week. I asked the guy in a comment, he confirmed that, it was with an e-bike.
Tried to ask him to change his ride to 'e-bike ride' but suddenly his ride disappeared: when I click on it, I get an error message saying 'The requested activity could not be found'. But his KOM remained... Since it cannot be flagged, this issue cannot be solved.
Segment: https://www.strava.com/segments/23625513
This is not a fullproof way to tell if its legit at all. If possible I often go for segments at the end of a ride and split the activity in two parts. So you would only see a very short activity anyhow.
I really wish for segments to be public, but the rest of my ride to be private. I often compete on rides that contain pictures I only want my friends to see.
But you're the KOM now. Did you beat the E-Bike?😃
No I couldn't, so no idea what could have happened. Maybe the guy took too many other KOMs from other riders and someone reported this person, but I'm only guessing. (-:
Many users want their activities on segments without making their activity public. Please create a fourth activity privacy level:{private; followers; followers + segments public; public}.
Alternatively, have separate controls for activities and segments
activity: private/followers/public
segments+ local hero: private/followers/public
For personal safety, setting activities to public is not advisable, since the entire non-excluded route is provided with time of day, allowing any Strava user to stalk a victim on their regular route. Public leaderboards for segments and local legends would not show a full route and only provide the date of the achievement, which is less useful to stalkers and other miscreants. The addition of an activity privacy level of "followers + segments public" would solve this problem.
The referenced idea is for a different feature to have private segments that the athlete can see their rank on.
I like the idea at the top of this tread. I would choose sharing activities with followers and segments with public.
