What's your opinion about the lurve system?

GQ. Feel better, now?
I get a little frustrated sometimes when I’ve given a solid, quality answer and no one seems to notice, but mostly I don’t care if other people give lurve to stupid stuff. Go eat a cookie. <hugs @prolificus > it’ll make you happier.

@JilltheTooth – hee hee <poutfully sucks on a stale cookie>

My only beef happens to be with the congratulatory threads for 10k, 20k, etc.. I never understood how one person can get 9 great answers, then people all around them get 14 or 15. How can one congratulation be better/worse than the other? :/ I’ve decided to quit answering those and just send a pm instead.

@prolificus it is a popularity deal in some cases. See it all the time.

There are people here that I’ve made comments to many times that never reply. That irritates me more than the lurves. Also, there are some here who never give lurves. You know that when you constantly follow their comment. I don’t lose sleep over it!

It’s silly.
Sometimes I wish there was a way to somehow vote answers down, but I’m glad there isn’t one.
If I wanted that, I could go somewhere else.

I lurve it to pieces.

I don’t pay much attention to when I do and don’t get lurve. I give lurve when I think something is a GQ or GA. If an answer I don’t agree with gets a lot of GAs, I just don’t pay it any mind. I know some jellies will give a GA to a well written answer, even if they don’t agree with the opinion in that answer. So, I don’t take it to mean that all of those people agree with it, just that they thought it was a GA.

I really like the fact that we have just positive in the lurve system. If you don’t like an answer, you don’t give it a GA. If you like it, you do. I am really glad we don’t have negatives and I hope that never changes.

Meh…it’s all a silly game.

And, as you mentioned, it is dependent on the opinion of the individual “I.” lol

I will give a GA for many reasons, one of which has no basis on merit of intelligent reply, but based on good humor, a unique spin on an issue and a sense of playfulness.

So I will ‘reward’ one for a multiplicty of reasons, some which mirror my sentiments and some just because I believe in showing appriciation for those that I support in the way they consistently show up.

Just because someone else has a certain strict criteria for giving a GA does not mean that everyone else has to be a spoke in the same wheel.

So there! :-)

Oh my gosh, are we suppose to give lurves for great answers! And, all this time….thought if a person was 98.6 they got my love lurve!!!!

By the way, what is a great answer?

Sometimes I think people give people lurve to people just for disagreeing with me (because they’re passive aggressive and like people who are not as cowardly as them).

I think it’s best if you just ignore the “numbers game.” Rather concentrate on the point, if there is any, of the questions & indeed answers. The rest is essentially a distraction. One which this fella ain’t affected by :¬)

lurve is like an opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

Lurve, my friend, makes the world go ‘around. Lurve is where you find it. Lurve is all the world needs.
Lurve is good between proper strangers. I though can’t give you anything but lurve,I shall continue giving all I’ve got, deserved or not.

@prolificus – I completely understand where you’re coming from. I’ve felt the same frustration, particularly when I’ve spent a good deal of time and energy crafting a response that I feel is especially excellent. I may have spent half an hour or more researching sources, laying out my points, etc. I have no idea why that answer would sit in a thread and get only a couple GAs, where less serious, jokey, chatty, or otherwise more flippant responses end up with 8 or 9.

It’s a mystery.

On the other hand – and much to my surprise – I got something like 25 GAs on a response to a question that took me like 3 minutes to tap out. I got my ego nice and puffed up, so no complaints there, but I had to kind of laugh because I know I’ve written much better. So, basically, the lurve whims of jellies is beyond scrutiny. Take it from me, you will bloody your head up against that wall until you recognize that it really makes no sense whatsoever. I also don’t think it’s personal, though I agree that it can feel like a popularity contest at times.

One of the only things about giving and getting lurve that bothers me once in a while, and that can typically be found in threads where debates are raging on, is when a person adds a well thought-out opinion to the mix, makes good points about something, and then is completely ignored because people are too busy arguing. If the point is to have an open discussion, then it’s important that all points are addressed.

Other than that, I can’t say it bothers me at all. Some people might get more lurve than others, because they’re liked – and that’s okay with me. I try not to pay attention to the score for the most part, though.

I got a GA yesterday for saying I was leaving the thread. Enough said. But i still love the lurve system..and I’ll be around a lot longer than the person that gave me the lurve for leaving :-)

I’m a realtive newbie—though I lurked for quite a whilte before diving in—and all the points above are valid. A few random observations: the lurve system is a narcissist’s dream, and I think anyone who craves “positive” feedback is going to experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat with lurve. I admit that while I think it silly overall (and yes, those 10K, 20K high-fives are the silliest), I now crave the lurve.

I just noticed that most responders above me are the 10K and 20K accumulators—please don’t hate me because I’m low on the lurve curve.

From another perspective, I think the system is sheer genius to motivate long-term activity.

Lurve ya, mean it!

I think it’s silly, and don’t anybody DARE give me a “Great Answer” for this answer.

@Rarebear you dared me…by golly, you got it my friend! loll

I think the system works just fine. People have different habits, criteria, etc., for awarding points, and I like that it can be completely idiosyncratic. The relative points and the lurve caps seem to function exactly as they are meant to.

The only time I feel a little irked is when somebody (often a newbie, and that’s probably the explanation) asks a rather demanding question that several people have taken the trouble to answer, and answer well, and the person even comes back and posts a thank-you, and yet the responses are still sitting at zero GA’s hours and even days later.

Eventually I think the responders probably GA each other, but the OP never gets it. It’s tempting to remind them, but that would be in poor taste.

I do know that short, flippant answers are always going to get tons of points and well-crafted ones will often be ignored, but there’s no surprise there. Look at our TV-watching, entertainment-seeking, learning, and even eating habits and you will see the exact same pattern: a preference for the shallow but amusing idea that goes down easy. That’s not everyone’s taste, but in a numbers game it’s a winner. Luckily here, unlike in the business world, the comments with the lower numbers are not phased out and discontinued.

If it’s any consolation, @prolificus, remember that people do max out on lurve points. If a response gets pounced on and lurved right away by 5 jellies who have already maxed out on that person, it guarantees that no points will be awarded at all.

I give out lurve to every participant on every contribution, because Fluther wouldn’t be what it is with them.

I’m one of those who hands out lurve on my own questions like it’s going out of style.

My own opinion differs from some of the others here in regards to the value placed on certain activities. It irks me to no end that questions get fewer points than answers. Intellectually, I can understand the reasoning, but I don’t agree with it. It seems to me that since I’m limited in the number of questions I can ask during a day, then I ought to think carefully about them and craft them well. To me, that deserves as much if not more lurve than an answer.

Having said that, I’m okay with the way things are set up and will play along. I love asking and answering. I’ve made some interesting friends here, and I’m glad I’ve stuck around as long as I have. I plan to be here for much longer.

@nebule : It might have been me that lurved you for that , I tend to lurve the people who have the sense to bow out and say so when things get too to be just silly and argumentative. If it was me, I did it from admiration. (I don’t even know what thread you’re talking about…just sayin’)
I just leave without notice. Oh, cowardly me.

And that ^^^ response is a good reminder of why we may as well not get exercised over what other people lurve and don’t lurve. It turns out (as seen in past threads on this topic) that people have all kinds of reasons, including—I remember this in particular—someone saying she lurved objectionable answers just to rile folks who thought they shouldn’t get any points. Not to mention the occasional slip of the fingers. (I’ve done that—haven’t you?—clicked GA when I meant to click Flag.) Auggie once wrote that she accidentally lurved a post now and then when she meant to click the “delete” button to mod it away. And even she couldn’t undo the lurve.

You may be speaking of me, @Jeruba. I have witnessed one or two users throw fits because the user they were arguing with received a great answer. I gave the user another great answer because I thought the person throwing the fit was being ridiculous. Another fit ensued because the person had two great answers. Silliness, I tell you.

Yes, it was you. I didn’t name you, but I remembered. You made me smile with that one.

I’m also with @hawaii_jake on this. Really? You took the time to answer my question? ThankyouThankYouThankYou.

Great question. It’s not lurve itself because you can still get a great answer and not recieve any lurve if that person maxed you out (100 lurve/20 GA per user I think). Great answers are a way that people show they feel you gave a great or helpful response. I know what you mean about dumb answers getting a ton of lurve and there are times I’ve seen a response directly answer a question in the most detailed way but not get any votes.

There are alot of younger people on here that have their cliques so I think that is another factor as well. I’m on two other Q & A sites/forums outside of Fluther and they all have their own terms for “lurve”.

I’m also on an electricians website where I get to help other electricians and do-it-yourselfers with their own questions/problems since I’m very experienced in what I do. To me it’s more about appreciation that your answer helped someone over lurve or points.

If only you all could see the little Daffy Duck rants and tantrums I throw when I disagree with an awarded lurve…

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – I’ve never been passive-aggressive like that, I simply won’t lurve someone when I disagree. Hm, maybe I should start lurving enemies of my enemies. ~

Sweet holy moly, Larvae, larvae, larvae, it can be a frustrating muse to see answers that hardly seem worthy garnering tons of larvae while others that seem well put together go lacking, but since larvae is passed around with the ease of a dooby at a Grateful Dead concert, it basically mean nothing, when all you have to do is show up and get the trophy the trophy is just plastic, no meaning behind it. The higher up in larvae you get don’t equate to anything extra, no extra questions, no way to rate a question more than once, nothing.

I worry more about people losing focus on the question and injecting into it what they imagine it says more than of they believe it is a good question for I believe if they truly honed in on the question they would see it too. Seeing that many of the badges are larvae connected I try no to focus on them either.

I Lurve it to pieces.
Wow, there’s alot of lurve on this stream ;)

I don’t get much.

No, really.

I have witnessed one or two users throw fits because the user they were arguing with received a great answer. I gave the user another great answer because I thought the person throwing the fit was being ridiculous.

I’ve done this a few times as well. It’s hard to resist sometimes.

Seniority indicator.