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mpmurphy00
Shkhara
Status: Archived

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.

 

6 Comments
Status changed to: Gathering Kudos
Soren
Denali
 
torbjornd
Mt. Kenya

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
Shkhara

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.

Status changed to: New Idea
Jane
Moderator Moderator
Moderator

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.  


Jane (she/her)
STRAVA | Community Hub Team

Status changed to: Archived
Jane
Moderator Moderator
Moderator
 

Jane (she/her)
STRAVA | Community Hub Team

mpmurphy00
Shkhara

bogusKOM.jpg

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