@cvcalhoun 202802 wrote:
Unfortunately, the only way to purge interlopers would be to go one by one and purge people. And then we’d have to guess which ones were really interlopers. For example, someone now in Florida might be someone who was a previous FS participant, and thus eligible to compete. Conversely, someone in the DC area might be someone with no actual interest in FS, who joined just because they saw someone else join.
And it’s just not that critical. Once the competition starts, everyone on a team will join the Strava club for that team, and the leaderboard will begin picking up from the team Strava clubs rather than the main Freezing Saddles one.
Fair enough, though the interlopers aren’t hard to spot. They’re usually 1) overseas and 2) are members of dozens upon dozens of clubs. They really reduce whatever utility there is of open Strava clubs. For example, 7 of this week’s top 15 riders on the BikeArlington group clearly have zero connection to the DC area and are just joining every club available. Wish Strava would cap the number of clubs people could join. In the absence of that, club administrators should do a periodic purge, otherwise what’s the point of the group?
