Strava Fembots

[Sunyata]

This is one of the many reasons why my account is set to “request to follow”.

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[secstate]

They each have one run to their credit. They love to run at night, naturally. The entirety of their athletic accomplishments:

Roxy Hodge
Today at 12:39 AM
0h 45m 25.11mi 1:48/mi (Run)

Marilyn Hope
Today at 12:39 AM (Run)
0h 41m 5.44mi 7:33/mi

Dayana Galloway
Today at 12:39 AM (Run)
0h 26m 1.53mi 17:18/mi

Audrina Mcknight
Today at 12:38 AM (Run)
0h 41m 5.44mi 7:33/mi

Shaniya Martinez
Today at 12:39 AM (Run)
0h 24m 11.60mi 2:08/mi

[ChampionTier]

@secstate 176961 wrote:

Roxy Hodge
Today at 12:39 AM
0h 45m 25.11mi 1:48/mi (Run)

Shaniya Martinez
Today at 12:39 AM (Run)
0h 24m 11.60mi 2:08/mi

These two…definitely robots.

[secstate]

Could it be?

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[huskerdont]

First time I clicked on a strange follower and saw a naked tush in the air I figured it out. But it appears Strava cleans them out occasionally.

[LhasaCM]

@Sunyata 176960 wrote:

This is one of the many reasons why my account is set to “request to follow”.

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That doesn’t block them entirely. I’ve been getting Kudos from a few of the fembots periodically even with that set; per support, it sounds like they also trawl through segment leaderboards to get to people (so they must be getting pretty far through them to get to me).

[secstate]

I’ve yet to attract my first fembot. Mostly I get real-seeming dudes from Latin America and Europe who join dozens and dozens of Strava clubs and then randomly give kudos to club members. We have a few in the BikeArlington club.

[Vicegrip]

What are the fembot’s goals?

[huskerdont]

@Vicegrip 176972 wrote:

What are the fembot’s goals?

1) Attract unsuspecting oafs
2) ?
3) Make money

[jrenaut]

@secstate 176961 wrote:

They love to run at night, naturally.

That’s probably because Strava displays activity time as your local time. Convert that to time in Moscow and I’ll bet it’s more reasonable. Although running 25 sub-two-minute miles is still not a thing.

[rcannon100]

@Vicegrip 176972 wrote:

What are the fembot’s goals?

[lordofthemark]

And by coincidence, after not getting strava spam for some time, after reading this thread yesterday, just this morning I got kudos from Rylee Harper, who in addition to having a “sexy” profile pic, is able to run 20 miles in under 50 minutes (is it possible strava is getting data from Google?) Despite such impressive statistics, I decided not to follow her. I already follow enough fast women.

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@jrenaut 176974 wrote:

That’s probably because Strava displays activity time as your local time. Convert that to time in Moscow and I’ll bet it’s more reasonable. Although running 25 sub-two-minute miles is still not a thing.

This changed at some point (maybe when Strava moved from showing the most recent rides first to showing the most recent uploads, regardless of time). At least for me, Strava displays the rider’s local time.

[jrenaut]

@secstate 176978 wrote:

This changed at some point. At least for me, Strava displays the rider’s local time.

Maybe they did the run before coming to the States to meet fellow athletes.

[wheelswings]

@huskerdont 176973 wrote:

1) Attract unsuspecting oafs
2) ?
3) Make money

Pardon my ignorance, but I still don’t get it. How do they make money?

(I have a request-to-follow Strava account so it’s free from supersonic fembots.)

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