Dear Strava.

I’ve been a segment creator for 10+ years.
I’ve always make segments based on the actual tracks specially when these are MTB related.
In your last update 10 months ago, around my area we lost many good segments in detriment to really bad ones that stayed, just because they had more stars, which was ridiculous.
So I started making them again, tagging them with my signature which my friends now use to recognize the goog ones.
Recently you deleted some classic ones that were good, but not mines because they were good 10 months ago, so there was no need for me to create another one.
Now, with this last delete, you’ve left some bad ones which don’t start where the track actually starts, and don’t end where the track ends.
When I tried to create the new and precise one, for a track I rode yesterday, I found out now it can’t be public. So we either stick with the bad ones, or write here on community hub for a solution.
I think we need some capacity to moderate these segments, or be able to at least contact the segment owner so he fixes it (which I think is too much to ask as many people created them long ago and might not even be active on Strava...). I don’t know, but It’s definitely a bad move to not let the good users make great useful segments for everyone.

So what could we do? You could do so much better here, even using speed and power data to check when people are pushing, for instance. Or just let people justify these new public segments.

PS: as an example, the most stared segment (135!!) in a track nearby has the most insanely bad gps data you could imagine. go check the popular one vs the precise one made by me:
- Bad one (popular): https://www.strava.com/segments/1235120
- Good one (perfect track): https://www.strava.com/segments/36759809

I hope you can make things better for users, not worse as its going with segments.