[Closed] Strava Kudos

Does anyone else look at their strava friends and not recall how they came to be your strava buddies? I recall my first one, a guy I met when I rode the Mynd in the snow and he was also riding a Cotic. He hasn't given me a single kudos, the bamstid!

What do you mean "how does it work?"

Someone follows you and if they see you've uploaded an activity then they may decide to give you kudos. That's it! If they follow so many people, your activity might not get noticed.

Some people give kudos to every ride that anyone they follow does others, like me, are a little more discerning. I won't give someone simply doing their commute any kudos but if they do a 100 miler then they'll get kudos. I've a mate who was one of those airlifted from the London 100 a couple of years ago - he suffered near fatal head injuries - he's back riding. He gets kudos.

The folk from other countries are generally kudos whores with thousands of followers, and it gives them massive boners/bonettes to get so much kudos back.

Same as Whitestone here: no kudos for commutes ever .. I will stop following people who upload walks to shops type activity .. something which has taken effort gets recognition though👍

But yes; some people give kudos as recognition they have seen the activity .. which kinda cheapens the kudos when real effort has been given.

Back when profile was public I'd get loads from far east and some from US who just follow thousands of people, are members are hundreds of groups, and just give kudos to everything. Some would occur in batch, so I'd suddenly get kudos from them for the last month of rides. Probably automated. The hope is you'll do the same back which boosts their profile, and that you'll follow them. Don't know if it works like Facebook where they can then sell that profile on. They do however have hooks into all the data from those they follow and their followers which can be harvested.

I'm enhanced privacy now, filtered out all the followers I don't actually know, and set it to not publish on leaderboards. Just use it for sharing between friends and monitoring my rides and tracking my component mileage.

Next step is biting the bullet and quitting Strava.

Still though, amongst friends I sometimes kudos their ride only having seen the summary. I do judge it though, i.e. if it appears to be a good effort for them, or something/somewhere interesting then kudos. I also refuse to kudos zwift and commutes, and road rides need to be super awesome to get a kudos as road miles are twice or more that of off road.

Private status and only let people I actually know follow me.

Otherwise I just dont trust it.

Private status and only let people I actually know follow me.

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Otherwise I just dont trust it.</span>

Yup, random kudos from Brazil early on got me straight onto the privacy settings.

I 'know' all of my followers, though some are people I've just met out on the hill once and follow each other to share routes/places. A couple of followers are very free and easy with giving kudos. From me...... kudos for KOM/QOM, cups, big miles, big altitude, or just riding somewhere interesting (still needs to be a decent ride though).

Private status and only let people I actually know follow me.

Otherwise I just dont trust it.

This. My profile is locked down and I'd rather strangers didn't get to see my rides, thanks very much. Only people I know follow me on Strava.

On the other hand, it's annoying that Strava doesn't seem to let you open up individual rides to the public. Sometimes, when you do an awesome event, or one with a load of strangers, it would be nice to relax the security just for that one ride so you can share it more widely. Sadly, it seems that you can only open / close a ride at the profile level, and I'm not willing to relax my overall controls to allow this.

To begin with Strava (for me) was very much about seeing what I could do so chasing PBs, KOMs, etc. These days  unless I'm very lucky I'm not going to be bothering any leaderboards so I use it more as a recording mechanism. There's probably better tools around for that but inertia and all that ...

I have my profile set up so that people have to request to follow me. There's a few still on the waiting list as I've no idea who they are, well some I do but I don't know their full name so I'm not sure if it's them or not. I had one on the waiting list that I couldn't figure out for ages as the profile name made no sense. Then I twigged - it was an anagram of the guys full name! Mostly it's people from the club or those that I've met/ridden with on a couple of rides.

A couple of years ago I got kudos and a request to follow from what appeared to be a US porn actor - that account got reported!

Zwift/turbo/commutes don't get kudos. As above rides should be exceptional for the individual involved. Then again one guy had obviously started his garmin at the front door then reset it at the garage and later in the day after his full ride uploaded everything from the device. That 5 metre "ride" got masses of kudos and  sarcastic comments 🙂 - "Awesome dude!" "Did you need a day's rest?" etc.

Pretty much what Whitestone says, I don't really bother with KOMs etc, just like to see how I'm going on certain trails etc, although that is generally more down to conditions rather than my riding.

Zwifters can make up their own kudos!

I will after a ride look at the today leaderboard for segments and then look at each persons rides to see if they've done a different route that I didn't know about, whilst doing this I generally dish out kudos to these people.

If the ride looks good and I dont know where they went I'll then steal the ride number and chuck it in the GPX file creator for future use.

I make all my commutes private so people can't give me kudos. Sometimes there's half an hour between it auto uploading from my GPS and editing the privacy, and a couple of people, (always the same ones) kudos them, I really don't understand it.

you can set uploads to be private automatically and then only make the ones public you want to.

I will admit to befriending a Kudos whore on Strava simply because he's called Jesus.

I like getting Kudos from Jesus, it puts me in mind of this...

my mate rides with a local road club

They're all over his commutes with the kudos - he gets 10 or so every day.  Twice, obvs

I imagine they're buttering him up, angling for an introduction to me

I'm firmly in the "kudos for exceptional rides only camp", but then I don't understand why people post unexceptional rides anyway. Since I joined a club and lots of people started following me, who I thought it was polite to follow back, my feed is just full of people's commutes - the same route every day, twice a day. Why bother? Fair enough if you want a record of your mileage or whatever, but just make it private. I rarely look through my feed and give people kudos anymore because it's full of this stuff. But some people must be impressed because they've all got 100 kudos for every commute :-S

I follow a mix of mates that do (mostly) unexceptional runs/rides and non-mates who post bloody long distances and/or v quick times etc.  I give kudos to the former as a kind of pat on the back for getting out there instead of couching out. And I give kudos to the latter if their session picques my interest in some way.

Don’t bother with anyone who commutes other than one mate who does 30 miles each way and puts a proper shift in.

Most of my runs/rides are available to followers and I don’t care what feedback I receive.  I’m just happy to be out in the wilds as that is one of my happy places.

I did do a big hill yesterday on my road bike and was first to the top (MTB Hill strength) of the 30 strong group and got copious kudos from the group. Then I looked at the records: Q: deflating balloon sound and back down to earth.

Don’t bother with anyone who commutes

Yeah bloody losers who commute on bikes day in day out year after year.

I see kudos as a well done for being active.

I record my commutes for mileage, some days I manage a PR too.

I give kudos out to my mates as a matter of course.If someone's done something exceptional,and they do every so often,then I'll also give them a positive comment.

Like most Strava users I get the occasional follower request from a random stranger but I don't accept them.

Was thinking about this earlier as I posted this morning’s ride in Strava - I appreciate what people put in Strava far more than the inane “Ooh look at me pictured here with a cup of coffee” BS people post on FB.