After being a paid member for a year and using the app faithfully for over three years, I'm now unfortunately going to have to delete it! All because I gave a member a compliment. We are in a really sad place right now if this is what constitutes 'harassment.'
"Thanks for writing in.
After review, we have determined the following content you posted to Strava violated our Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of our Terms of Service
CONTENT: "Hockey legs make great bike legs. Beautiful too:)"
Those policies prohibit publishing, transmitting, distributing, or storing content, material, information or data that violates any of the Acceptable Use Policy sections, including but not limited to:
Harassment
Strava’s policies prohibit any content or behavior that violates any section of the Acceptable Use Policy, including but not limited to:
Personal attacks targeting someone with insults, profanity, offensive language, unwanted sexualization, or any other malicious acts.
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Mocking or belittling someone’s personal loss.
Coordinated targeting of another Strava community or account through actions like mass commenting, spamming, and harassment (brigading).
Creating accounts dedicated to harassment, brigading, or repeated unwanted contact.
Misuse of our reporting mechanisms to harass someone.
Doxxing, or encouraging others to harass, dox, or brigade.
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As a result of these violations, we removed the content from Strava. In the event that you share such content in the future, we may take action to enforce our policies, up to and including permanent suspension of your account.
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Paul
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