Originally Posted by
rubiksoval
I don't think it does (unless this is brand new, as I flagged a few rides a while back). You can put your GPS in your car and drive around with it and be fine until someone manually flags it. Strava then sends an automatic email to the person asking them to crop their ride, delete it, or confirm everything is okay. That's that.
If it's flagged for a second time, then an actual person checks in and says "what makes this legitmate?"
At that point it's either removed or it's verified and you can't flag it anymore.
Tried to do more digging on this. Beyond saying "we have a flagging system" Strava hasn't really divulged how their auto flagging system works. From their newsletter: "
Improved impossible effort detection… False KOMs, QOMs, CRs dethroned!". So I think they've had an algorithm in place for at least a little while before now.
This article gives barely any more information on the improvement:
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/7820/...gical-ordering
I still don't know if their system works or will work, honestly.