It was my understanding from the article and other commenters that these hoarders were taking the scooters without checking them out on the app, waiting for the

It was my understanding from the article and other commenters that these hoarders were taking the scooters without checking them out on the app, waiting for their charge reward to rise, then checking them out to charge at that point. If so it’s the taking them without checking them out part that is clearly the problem here. Come to think of it this might present an easier solution for Bird. If the scooter is moved without being checked out, it’s charger reward price should be frozen at whatever it was at that time. That can be reset after some period to account for cases where the scooter is moved by a non hoarder, possibly also checking to make sure there are less than N other scooters in a 50m radius to identify those cases where the scooter was moved and dumped on its own and really does need a properly incentivized charger to go find it.