tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post5031226263119211336..comments2024-02-14T17:11:22.168-08:00Comments on On Bicycles, and.... what else is there?: Strava flagging proposal: a titration experimentdjconnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-29201298579189770102013-10-14T07:26:15.593-07:002013-10-14T07:26:15.593-07:00I've had a similar thought and had a polite em...I've had a similar thought and had a polite email exchange with Strava about a segment that shouldn't be flagged as dangerous, but I sense that their hands are tied. Once anyone declares a segment to be dangerous they are in a spot of bother if they don't agree. The support person was sympathetic but said they could have 100 people write in saying that the segment was safe but they need to honor the one dissenting view.<br /><br />It is a shame because I could see various forms of crowd sourcing the vote on this. I suspect the legal team has advised them to do it this way and no amount of technically excellent alternatives will trump this.Duanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936303952493917859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-46005404347304880432013-10-11T05:33:32.500-07:002013-10-11T05:33:32.500-07:00Good point, Rob! That's what private rides ar...Good point, Rob! That's what private rides are for, however. You could argue riders should be able to hide individual segment matches, but since segment matches could appear for new segments at any time, that would never be safe.<br /><br />Even better, perhaps, would be to allow riders to crop data from the middle of rides, something for which I've long advocated, since it's common to get ride-train-ride sequences in my data stream. I've written a Perl script to strip these from the FIT file, but more commonly I just pick one of the ride portions and crop out the other, along with the train portion.<br /><br />But in the end, if you set the ratio high (10 seems high) then there would be no fundamental reason to be embarrassed about any segment matches which survive that sort of "vote". djconnelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-75045553449741778172013-10-10T23:47:36.892-07:002013-10-10T23:47:36.892-07:00Not all users want to be listed on illegal segment...Not all users want to be listed on illegal segments like going over 15 mph on multi-use paths like the san andreas trail or perhaps the wrong way up hawk hill. I was the KOM holder of the SAT segment even though my best time was clearly ridden on 280. Nonetheless, I don't want some journalist, coworker, law enforcer, to be able to search some segment and call me out, thus I flag clearly illegal segments where I am the KOM holder.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398921828826096485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-89208778361544359582013-10-10T06:15:23.952-07:002013-10-10T06:15:23.952-07:00BTW, the segment quality issue is something I'...BTW, the segment quality issue is something I'd discussed with Wahoo about their "ride segment on a trainer" app. They should consider, I said, taking a match from the leaderboard, rather than the original segment, for altitude: often the original segment was designed long ago and measured with inferior altimetry, or none (and looked up on a map).djconnelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-22397592767324722302013-10-10T06:13:47.436-07:002013-10-10T06:13:47.436-07:00Good point. Strava ambassaders can delete segment...Good point. Strava ambassaders can delete segments, as can customer support. They used to allow comments on segments, but I don't think that's supported any longer. In any case, the voting principle should apply.djconnelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-54378635606059225962013-10-10T06:10:02.686-07:002013-10-10T06:10:02.686-07:00It's not just "dangerous" segments t...It's not just "dangerous" segments that get flagged - it's also the only way of saying "the elevation profile for this segment is nonsense" (a frequent occurrence!).<br /><br />In that instance, you never want the segment unfledged but rather deleted and recreated.zimpenfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02878173289281662062noreply@blogger.com