Should one sentence answers that are merely greetings, or compliments count as Great Answers?

It doesn’t matter that much to me. :)

If it makes me smile, I lurve it. :)

I don’t think any criteria should be met for GA’s, I mean it’s just a bunch of numbers after all.

Yes.

Allowing this would enable a person to accumulate enormous amounts of Lurve in a very short time without offering any substantial contribution at all! Have you met my friends @bob_ or @AstroChuck? ;)

Also, the “game players” on here get lots o’ lurve. TJBM is fun to watch

I just give lurve. Why so many questions about scores from everyone lately? It’s just a thing.

Great Answers meet subjective criteria. I don’t really want anybody laying down rules on how I can vote, although… I do agree that “Congrats!” gets much more lurve than warranted when you think that most people only skimmed by the answer and GA’d it without reading.

My Lord I have seen short novel answers here that go on and on and on and when you finally finish reading them and realize a short answer could have sufficed. I prefer short and to the point answers any day!

The Congo Rats GA’s are usually, i believe so, given to, and by Jellies that already are maxed out on each other, so there is nothing (much) gained there.

@SpatzieLover Um, thanks?

Not quite so, @rebbel. We all have our little niches on Fluther where we do max out on the usual suspects but the Congo Rats cast a wider net than our normal associates. It’s always good for at least 40 points to post on those.

@bob_ You are seriously welcome ;P

Some answers are “great” for their content, others are “great” for their community-building value.

@SpatzieLover Conciseness is seriously underrated.

I often go to my profile and hide the GA’s that show as my “greatest” if they have come from milestone parties.
It seems that the majority of milestone parties have the same users over and over again, so the lurve is quickly maxed out, anyhow. I think it’s awesome that we encourage compliments and support here. That’s good stuff.

I lurve you everyday for it @bob_

@SpatzieLover Atta girl.

Great idea @ANef_is_Enuf. I never thought of doing that.

It really doesn’t matter much how many GA’s any particular answer gets. If I remember correctly, our actual lurve score only increases for the first 5 GA’s anyway and that’s only if those first 5 GA’s are given by people that haven’t already maxed out on you. Seems to me like there are enough checks and balances that way to leave things the way they are and let us give anything a GA we want. GA’s are just a matter of our opinions anyway.

Every response on Fluther is a valuable contribution and deserves recognition.

Whoa.

There are no rules on how GQ and GA points should be distributed. This means that we are each allowed to make up our own guidelines.

It is understandable how you feel about the celebration parties, greetings, and as @SpatzieLover pointed out, the game questions. It does seem silly if looking at it from the perspective of “Is this truly a GQ/GA in the big scheme of Fluther?” Probably not, yet the culture, like any other culture in life, continues to evolve.

Lurve points, whether they raise the score or not, is a positive reward. It may be construed as silly or even banal, but that fleeting moment of seeing another connected with a post can bring on a smile. I’ve heard that causing a moment of happiness in another contributes to health and well-being. I’m all for that.

If the majority of answers with high lurve were like_“WoW! Well deserved! congratulations!”_ answers, those kind of answers are from lurve parties. They always get a lot of GAs; that’s the practice and tradition here. Did you check the context of the high GA answers you looked at?

You guys, it’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it.

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID.

Nothing wrong with a good lurve orgy. But if someone were browsing my profile, I’d rather those not be the top answers they see. @ANef_is_Enuf‘s idea is great.

Depends.

Acceptable.

I think a one-liner can be a truly great remark. Evidence: Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Yogi Berra, W.C. Fields…

In the party threads, granted, most of the comments are conventional and uninspired, but some folks make it a point to GA every post anyway. In reality that practice is probably holding the potential score down because every GA from someone who’s maxed out on you prevents you from getting points from someone who isn’t (up to 5, anyway, after which no GAs count for points).

“Allowing this”: allowing what? Allowing people to do what they do right now? Not sure I understand.

I don’t ever want to see criteria for GA’s and GQ’s. To me the fact that they are awarded freely and idiosyncratically is part of whatever value they do have, if not all of it.

Alright, how are the blank answers getting all the lurve? Is there some trick to reading between the lines that I’m not getting? :)

Well to me ’‘GA’s’’ really aren’t a barometer for quality or worth, so I don’t care. In the past, it did bother me that someone who would ask us to look at their avatar got a buncha GA’s and then my question about making up a disease was pulled. Felt kind of unfair. But I learned the ropes later.
Like @Blueroses says, a lot of it is subjective. If someone congratulates me with a one worder and I’m totally touched by it, that should warrant as a GA, at least from me. So it’s valid, I guess.