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It was more the point that Strava gets annoying for some when segments you're interested slowly get filled up with this kind of thing, i.e. the top 10 contains a load of car journeys and GPS lock glitches.
I commute in London. Every single segment my Strava ever registered is filled with people doing it at 60km/h or more, doesn't matter how long it is, whether it's uphill or downhill, whether it goes through some intersections or not.
But what really annoys me is how Strava has ZERO data integrity check. Your GPS spazzed out and now you've done 300m at 180km/h? Not a problem, you're on the leaderboard now.
Say what?? How incredibly simple would it be to just put in a maximum speed allowable? Even putting it at 70km/h would at least get rid of of the GPS glitches.
Now - having said all that, I don't actually care much about it for my own sake. In the history of my cycling, I got one KOM, on a slightly obscure road / gravel / road track outside of Cambridge, where I was 'competing' with one other dude who had put up a realistic time. That was cool. But I know I don't have a chance of beating the 'pros' anyway, much less on a fixed gear bike - I'm not actually trying to get into the top 10 myself. However, it'd be nice if, when I do look up the leaderboard, I could marvel at people's actual achievements, instead of counting the GPS glitches.
SwissChap-
I commute in London. Every single segment my Strava ever registered is filled with people doing it at 60km/h or more, doesn't matter how long it is, whether it's uphill or downhill, whether it goes through some intersections or not.
A lot of my commute (SW15 to SE1) is filled with 60kph people but that's because it follows most of the route of the London Surrey Classic and has had professionals riding it at that speed:-
https://www.strava.com/activities/1742059749/overview
A lot of the other ~57kph segments seem to be people who probably just got lucky with traffic lights and were drafting vehicles. Some of my PBs (still a way off the associated KOMs) on similar segments were gained exactly this way, and they're utterly untouchable by me now.
I don't think much of it is down to GPS glitches, I suspect there's more Digital EPO going on that random GPS problems.
I've also done most of my commuting route at ~4am on a faster bike with minimal luggage, with a tailwind, at the start of a 200km Audax. Again my times here are a lot better than riding my heavy commuter with 15kg of crap in the panniers on the way to work at 8.30am in heavy traffic.
Greenbank
It was more the point that Strava gets annoying for some when segments you're interested slowly get filled up with this kind of thing, i.e. the top 10 contains a load of car journeys and GPS lock glitches.
Since I never bother the top 10 it's not a problem for me. Strava is just a nice basic visual training log for me. For more visual detail I've got Garmin Connect or Golden Cheetah and for all of the stats in one place I've got a spreadsheet that I manually fill in (which I'm slowly trying to automate based on parsing the .fit files myself).