I find it hard to keep my acceptance rate up when I cannot stop back-to-back pings, cannot close the app and ultimately have to reboot my device to stop the madness. Maybe lyft should think about adding a switch when you cancel or decline - "Do you wish to keep receiving ride requests?" Seems like that might be a better approach than sending a message about not accepting requests impacting the "community", or hammering the driver with endless requests one after another.
Having said that, if I was able to maintain a high acceptance rate - which I would if the above were resolved, I would enjoy getting more information about the ride.