Strava-unwarranted kudos from a random?

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  • Doesn't bother me one bit.

    If someone from California, Texas, Brisbane (it's always some far-flung place) wants to leave kudos that's fine. It must make them happy and there's no reason to take away their joy.

    I find (anti)social media fascinating - FaceBook, Twitter, Strava or whatever. Why do people want to accumulate so many 'friends' or followers? If it makes them happy in their world, that's fine. Perhaps I'm just a miserable sod - I tend to keep my circles to friends & acquaintances. Real ones.

    Back to kudos...a mate/ride buddy/work colleague & I often exchange kudos. Sometimes they are for real. Sometimes they are as a piss-take because a ride of 1 second & zero distance has auto-uploaded just because he turned on his device and moved (and you know it's you, Tony).

    So, if Latha Duncan from Santa Monica wants to leave me kudos, that's just fine. Kudos to him - but not on Strava.
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  • I haven't had it in a while, but the annoying ones are when someone (or some bot) starts giving kudos on every activity - even if it's a completely normal 30 minute commute. Then I get a notification and an email which is the only annoying bit.
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Would all you people moaning about receiving unwarranted kudos please visit my Strava page and give me unwarranted kudos. I feel lonely :roll:
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  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    done !!!!

    although that ride was sunday ? .... sunday ?? .... dude, get out and ride more ..... unwarranted kudos is just that, you can only get it from doing a 3mile commute to work or nipping to the shops.
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    if you look at my feed you will see I rode home the otherday, didn't get a single award, only did 2.9 miles and got 5 kudii from people I have no idea who they are and live the otherside of the world.
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    fat daddy wrote:
    done !!!!

    although that ride was sunday ? .... sunday ?? .... dude, get out and ride more ..... unwarranted kudos is just that, you can only get it from doing a 3mile commute to work or nipping to the shops.

    Thanks FD. I had planned a ride Sunday but was unwell Saturday night...am planning a ride tonight, probably like the last Windsor one. I bit longer than a couple of miles ;-) Other priorities are getting in the way this year as I moved house in Jan and there's a lot of DIY to do!! Next job...the man cave.
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  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    fat daddy wrote:
    if you look at my feed you will see I rode home the otherday, didn't get a single award, only did 2.9 miles and got 5 kudii from people I have no idea who they are and live the otherside of the world.

    Its strangers pointing out in a sarcastic way how pathetic your rides are.
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    The odd thing about it (if it is bots or scripts etc) is the motivation - when a Venuzualan with no miles logged gives me kudos it immediately makes me suspicious of the motivation. But then I'm left scratching my head wondering what on earth they *could* do by seeing a few of my runs / rides (they can't follow me as I've got that set up to be "request" only).

    I've never yet seen a kudos from a random followed up with a link to a dodgy store in a comment or similar, so there seems to be nothing to be gained. And if they are an axe murderer sat in a white van round the corner from where I live ready to lop off my head or burgle my house while I am out on a ride following a weekly pattern, they wouldn't be giving me kudos to warn me either would they?
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  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    drlodge wrote:
    Thanks FD. I had planned a ride Sunday but was unwell Saturday night.


    well at least you do decent length rides .... the only time I can muster is 3 mile rides to work and playing on Zwift at 5am ... out side of that time I am in a perpetual "daddy" loop

    Still, as she gets older I'll find the time ... and probably wish she was 5 again so I could play with her.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    drlodge wrote:
    Would all you people moaning about receiving unwarranted kudos please visit my Strava page and give me unwarranted kudos. I feel lonely :roll:
    Done :)
  • drlodge wrote:
    Would all you people moaning about receiving unwarranted kudos please visit my Strava page and give me unwarranted kudos. I feel lonely :roll:
    I almost felt sorry for you until I looked at your last ride and see you have already got 26 kudos!
  • drlodge wrote:
    Would all you people moaning about receiving unwarranted kudos please visit my Strava page and give me unwarranted kudos. I feel lonely :roll:
    I just gave you kudos without even looking at your ride. So I've no idea whether it was warranted or not. Will that suffice?

    Paul
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Thank you to those who gave me Kudos on my ride last week and on last nights ride, I'm feeling the love ;-)

    Looking at who has given me Kudos, in the main its from "remote" people that I have only a tentative relationship with, rather than regular club riders that I know well. This whole Kudos business is really rather strange.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    It's not unwarranted that bothers me, it's how do people see my rides when I'm set to "Follow only" Surely that means it doesn't actualy work. I don't want all and sundry to see where I go and what times, more likely to get robbed!

    (And it has happened through strava with less careful users)
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,981
    Paul 8v wrote:
    It's not unwarranted that bothers me, it's how do people see my rides when I'm set to "Follow only" Surely that means it doesn't actualy work. I don't want all and sundry to see where I go and what times, more likely to get robbed!

    (And it has happened through strava with less careful users)

    See my earlier reply ^^^ for a couple of ways they can see it.
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  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    As above - are you in any Strava 'clubs' ?
    I left one & 99% of the random kudos from overseas stopped.

    I now feel safer (if more unloved ;-) )
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Ah, thanks guys. Must have missed that the first time. Ironically, apart from my local club the other group I was in was the "Bike Radar road forum" one :-)
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    vimfuego wrote:
    As above - are you in any Strava 'clubs' ?
    I left one & 99% of the random kudos from overseas stopped.

    I now feel safer (if more unloved ;-) )

    Safer from what ?
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  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    "them"
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  • Well this thread is odd.

    People do realise that Strava is essentially social media for cyclists and runners don't they?

    Also, if I were thinking of stealing someones bike because i had meticulously tracked their riding over a period of time to figure out when the bike would be unattended at home, I would definitely give them Kudos first.
  • Craigus89 wrote:
    Well this thread is odd.

    People do realise that Strava is essentially social media for cyclists and runners don't they?

    Also, if I were thinking of stealing someones bike because i had meticulously tracked their riding over a period of time to figure out when the bike would be unattended at home, I would definitely give them Kudos first.
    On Strava you can have an exclusion area with a radius of say 500 yards around your home, so other users cannot see where you live for security reasons.
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    If they really wanted to steal a bike, theres much easier ways. From simply taking it from a passing cyclist to snipping a cheap bike lock.

    Including built up areas, as I doubt some witnesses would challenge them.
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  • Craigus89 wrote:
    Well this thread is odd.

    People do realise that Strava is essentially social media for cyclists and runners don't they?

    Also, if I were thinking of stealing someones bike because i had meticulously tracked their riding over a period of time to figure out when the bike would be unattended at home, I would definitely give them Kudos first.
    On Strava you can have an exclusion area with a radius of say 500 yards around your home, so other users cannot see where you live for security reasons.

    Unless that has changed, I wouldn't rely on it. I think it used to be that if you downloaded someone's ride it had the whole thing, and it was only the display that excluded it.
  • Craigus89 wrote:
    Well this thread is odd.

    People do realise that Strava is essentially social media for cyclists and runners don't they?

    Also, if I were thinking of stealing someones bike because i had meticulously tracked their riding over a period of time to figure out when the bike would be unattended at home, I would definitely give them Kudos first.
    On Strava you can have an exclusion area with a radius of say 500 yards around your home, so other users cannot see where you live for security reasons.

    Unless that has changed, I wouldn't rely on it. I think it used to be that if you downloaded someone's ride it had the whole thing, and it was only the display that excluded it.
    I'm surprised at that as Strava does say it is a Privacy Zone that you can create.
  • Craigus89 wrote:
    Well this thread is odd.

    People do realise that Strava is essentially social media for cyclists and runners don't they?

    Also, if I were thinking of stealing someones bike because i had meticulously tracked their riding over a period of time to figure out when the bike would be unattended at home, I would definitely give them Kudos first.
    On Strava you can have an exclusion area with a radius of say 500 yards around your home, so other users cannot see where you live for security reasons.

    Unless that has changed, I wouldn't rely on it. I think it used to be that if you downloaded someone's ride it had the whole thing, and it was only the display that excluded it.
    I'm surprised at that as Strava does say it is a Privacy Zone that you can create.
    Might well have changed - give it a go.
  • angry_bird
    angry_bird Posts: 3,787
    Craigus89 wrote:
    Well this thread is odd.

    People do realise that Strava is essentially social media for cyclists and runners don't they?

    Also, if I were thinking of stealing someones bike because i had meticulously tracked their riding over a period of time to figure out when the bike would be unattended at home, I would definitely give them Kudos first.
    On Strava you can have an exclusion area with a radius of say 500 yards around your home, so other users cannot see where you live for security reasons.

    Unless that has changed, I wouldn't rely on it. I think it used to be that if you downloaded someone's ride it had the whole thing, and it was only the display that excluded it.
    I'm surprised at that as Strava does say it is a Privacy Zone that you can create.
    Might well have changed - give it a go.

    Do people really start recording at their front doors? Seems daft to me, regardless of Strava's privacy zone, I leave it until I get to one of a few reasonably large junctions close by before I start recording.
  • Angry Bird wrote:
    Do people really start recording at their front doors? Seems daft to me, regardless of Strava's privacy zone, I leave it until I get to one of a few reasonably large junctions close by before I start recording.
    Yes, I sometimes turn it on as I leave my driveway, but sometimes I wait a few hundred yards until I'm on the main road. I think a lot of cyclists would turn on their Garmin as soon as they start their ride from their house - why does it seem daft to you?
  • angry_bird
    angry_bird Posts: 3,787
    Angry Bird wrote:
    Do people really start recording at their front doors? Seems daft to me, regardless of Strava's privacy zone, I leave it until I get to one of a few reasonably large junctions close by before I start recording.
    Yes, I sometimes turn it on as I leave my driveway, but sometimes I wait a few hundred yards until I'm on the main road. I think a lot of cyclists would turn on their Garmin as soon as they start their ride from their house - why does it seem daft to you?

    Because of the numerous incidences where Strava has been apparently been used by scumbags to target bikes. Why risk someone being able to see where you and your bike live exactly for the sake of losing a little bit of your Strava ride?
  • Angry Bird wrote:
    Angry Bird wrote:
    Do people really start recording at their front doors? Seems daft to me, regardless of Strava's privacy zone, I leave it until I get to one of a few reasonably large junctions close by before I start recording.
    Yes, I sometimes turn it on as I leave my driveway, but sometimes I wait a few hundred yards until I'm on the main road. I think a lot of cyclists would turn on their Garmin as soon as they start their ride from their house - why does it seem daft to you?

    Because of the numerous incidences where Strava has been apparently been used by scumbags to target bikes. Why risk someone being able to see where you and your bike live exactly for the sake of losing a little bit of your Strava ride?
    That was the whole point of the Privacy Zone on Strava - so that other users couldn't see where you lived. I didn't know that there was any problem with the Privacy Zone.