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> To me it feels like going to a 5k charity run, taking a motorcycle to the finish line, and parading your gold medal around. Like, who are you impressing? And
by setgree 3y ago
> To me it feels like going to a 5k charity run, taking a motorcycle to the finish line, and parading your gold medal around. Like, who are you impressing? And are you even proud of yourself?
Weirdly enough, basically this happens all the time at races [0]. Not a motorcycle, but a runner in my local competitive scene used a bicycle to fake her strava data for a HM in 2017 [1].
I don't get it either.
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/marathon-investigation-cheaters-racing-data/ https://www.wired.com/story/marathon-investigation-cheaters-...
[1] https://washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/23/how-an-ohio-blogger-discovered-a-runner-a-harvard-grad-cheating-in-a-half-marathon-across-the-county/ https://washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/23/ho...
- mckn1ght 3y agoGeez, the number of support requests I’ve sent to Strava over the years asking them to clean up their data. I don’t know about Android, but iOS can fairly reliably tell the difference between walking, running, bicycling, driving… They should be able to couple this with some better data science to filter things out like deliberate cheating, forgetting to set the right activity type or stop tracking before you drive away, or glitches in eg the GPS radio that result in huge changes in location or altitude, pushing you to the top of leaderboards with impossible results.