just appeared on one of my clubs:
The thing is these guys are (or in some cases back when they used to ride, were) faster than me, I know that. I don’t really want to be “that guy” who has the reputation of flagging everything to push myself to the top. It’s different now, but back then tech was just different. It’s not THAT serious at the end of the day
I just wish strava would indicate who flagged the ride when being flagged.
I feel the lack of transparency or accountability makes some people feel more willing to flag a ride. We have some locals that flag legitimate segments just because they are jealous or they are just trying to cause issues.
I agree that it’s not that big of a deal. But, flagging is anonymous and if I see irregularities I have no problem flagging. I figure that if I flag bad GPS data it’s then up to Strava to confirm it or reject it.
I also wish strava would allow the segment creator to be known. I see so many ridiculous segments, it could be comical to see who created the segments.
AFAIK Strava doesn’t review flags unless maybe you submit a copious amount of them. It’s just up to that athlete to contest/reject it if anything. Not a great system since if someone was an absolute animal and then stopped riding/using strava, all their legit efforts could be flagged and removed.
I’ve joked with my buddy who’s one of those local animals that he’s only allowed to retire from cycling if he deletes his strava in the process
I cant remember if I posted this before but back in unlucky 2013, I got an ‘Uh Oh’, looked and saw that the poor guy had been in an RTC. My first instinct was to ask if he was OK!
A few weeks later I was cycling from Peterborough to London for a party. I arrived a tad too early, so I went for a cycle round the block. Bad mistake, I had a numpty come into the side of me. Luckily though (if you can call it luck) they ripped my front wheel out of the frame (the folded in two wheel was recovered from about 30ft away) but I and importantly the Ti bike were 90% fine. I was checked out by the paramedics anyway; who after doing so gave me and my bike a lift back to the party. I had forgotten in all the excitement to turn my Garmin off however, and snagged a 4th place. At the time though you couldn’t crop a strava ride on the phone, so I titled it ‘A ride to London Finishing in the back of an Ambulance - to be cropped when I get home tomorrow’. As I say despite the destroyed wheel, I and the bike were 90% fine, I enjoyed the party, borrowed a wheel and cycled back in a large peleton to Cambridge and with a few mates who I met there on to Peterborough. Got in and booted up the PC to crop the ride only to find some Sad Alan B’stard had flagged it already 
The silver lining, if you can call it that, a year later my lawyers physio did assessment (no more than a little discomfort I said and it hadn’t stopped me cycling the next day) but whatever his report said had the case concluded in a week and the payout paid for my TT bike frame. I also did another 40,000 miles (including LBL, a few short versions of Flanders and the 312) on the bike that was hit.
This recent post on the meme thread from @dmalanda seems appropriate here:
So I flagged a ride that took one of my KoMs next to a train track because the “rider” was travelling at 50mph along the tracks.
Just had the notification that his ride is back up so I assume somebody at Strava has determined it’s OK?
What are the next steps? How far should I go? I’m loosing my mind.
Post it here. We’ll all flag it!
Two guys took the KOM yesterday on our regular (for this time of year) trail ride…pretty long segment at ~40 minutes. They got it because they entered the segment at the back of the group and finished with the group. never saw them at the front…
Tried to flag their rides but there wasn’t an option for “Never took a pull” so I had to let it go…
I keep asking Strava to add an option “GPS set to smart recording” for all those ridiculously short 10-second sprint segments that Strava screws up by using interpolation to show 38mph when the Strava speed channel data shows 32mph 
I don’t know about all this flagging rides bizzo. I’ve started giving kudos to the E bike riders in my local area. Way more fun.
Lol, on my phone I PR’d on a segment so I had a closer look 3rd to 10th are all folk that I know who are genuinely fast. But the 2 that’s ahead of them quite obviously forgot to turn off their GPS in the car after or before a trip to the local BMX park, 5.5mph average but a 56.7mph max on the flat I wonder how long it’ll be before someone flags them, I don’t have the heart to myself (they are probably only kids)
Kids run Strava on their BMX rides?
It might be Xander Graham 
Might be a step too far
not really
I take this (too) serious too, if someone took my only KOM in a car or ebike , I would not stop before the ride was removed from the leaderboards.
There should be a “Wheel Sucker” option!