Fluther methodology, did I miss this?

I don’t understand

I don’t understand either.

^ Was the explanation that lurve only comes by someone giving you an “Atta Boy” and not by participation regardless of anyone else, somewhere in one of the links on Fluther and how it works as they have for how to format, answer general questions vs social, Fluther grammar standards, etc. and I just somehow missed that little tid bit of information?

I’m still lost.

@jca I’m still lost.
This site has information that explains how parts of it work, such as what the General questions parts means and does, and the Social question part means and does, as well as how to use Fluther formatting, etc. in all of the links that with this sort of information is there any part of the site that specially says, in so many words, ”Lurve is awarded to users by fellow users only”? Or is it just implied or taken as general knowledge that simply participating gains you nothing if no one gives it to you? I looked and I have not found any info explaining who lurve is rewarded, I just wonder if I missed it but it was there all along?

I’m lost too.

What is Lurve?

^ thank you, that is what I was looking for but missed (6 years too late, but….), had I seen that way back when we would not be having this conversation.

I used the search function on Fluther from my laptop.
Apparently that feature doesn’t work for everyone, or from some non-PC devices.
My fancy search – “How does Lurve accrue.” – got crap.
When I typed “Lurve” in the question box and hit enter, that was #1.

Prior to using the search feature, I clicked every Fluther link I thought might apply to the question and got nothing.

Scary that I was the only successful HC translator.

I don’t understand the point to the lurve given the restrictions. I suppose lurvre totals amount to a combination of length of time on the site and frequency of participation, but even that’s fairly useless, since there’s no way to determine which of either is more prevalent in the totals. The revelation that it is the most active members and those of greatest seniority that will be stripped of the privilege of bestowing and receiving the Lurve from those who have given the most or served the longest renders the system insulting.

What is Lurve?

@stanleybmanly I suppose lurvre totals amount to a combination of length of time on the site and frequency of participation, but even that’s fairly useless, since there’s no way to determine which of either is more prevalent in the totals.
That is the rub, the length of time or frequency or activity in the Lagoon is useless unless other feel free to ”grace” you with “Atta Boys”. If there was really truly a repugnant member who avoided getting banned and no matter how often they commented, or asked a question, if the cliques or greater members at large never patted them on the back no matter how good or bad their answers or question was, they would crawl like a snail getting only 1 lurve for logging in two days in a row; that is the ONLY lurve they can do out of their own pocket.

The revelation that it is the most active members and those of greatest seniority that will be stripped of the privilege of bestowing and receiving the Lurve from those who have given the most or served the longest renders the system insulting.
I do not think that point is made clear in any of the links I read, nor the fact that just showing up or being active gains one anything, had I known that from the start…….”pass”, I would have been off somewhere else even if they are defunct now.

I guess it boils down to “how important is lurve for you when it comes to Fluther?” I know variations on that question have been asked before. For me, lurve is minor, it’s more that I enjoy the site, the community and the variety of questions.

@Hypocrisy_Central If you stop and think about it a little bit, the way our lurve system works actually prevents the kind of ”ol’ boys” clique-based point system you’re so against. Because all of the ol’ boys here (the well-connected, veteran members) have already lost the ability to influence each others’ lurve scores, the only members who really have the power to move any of us up the lurve ladder are the relative newcomers (with the exception of old members returning under new accounts).

Newer members don’t (yet) belong to any cliques, they’re not ol’ boys, they don’t know who’s who around here, who’s popular or unpopular. But they’re the ones who hold all the lurve cards, not your ol’ boys networks.

Mmmmm. perhaps. Was the policy initiated to counter cliquish behavior after creation or was it designed in from the outset?

@stanleybmanly Don’t know. It was in place within the first couple of years, if not from the outset.

Well, it’s better than unrestricted, unlimited lurve.
Perhaps other options (say limiting members to giving a certain amount of lurve per month, for instance) were just too much of a programming nightmare.

Who knows what Fluther might be today if it had continued to gain popularity and actively developed. Likely it would have been incorporated into a larger company’s format by now.

@stanleybmanly It was built in from the start of the lurve system.

Thanks

“What’s lurve got to do, got to do with it, what’s lurve but a bullshit handout…woah oh oh!!”

Just an FYI: On the home page you’ll see your most recent lurve listed to the right. At the top of that list, just to the right of the large “Lurve” title, there’s a little link that says ”What the…?” That link leads to the “What is Lurve?” page people shared earlier. It’s hiding on the front page, right under our very eyes! ;)

^ Hiding for way too long