How often are you surprised that you have not maxed out on a Fellow Flutheronians, especially after many years?

I have absolutely no idea who I’m maxed out on and who I’m not. I am a Lurve fairy, and hand out GAs for damn near anything I agree with, or find mildly amusing.

The only way I would possibly know is if I sat there waiting to see if their score moved when I GA’d a particular post & that would be fucking pathetic.
So my answer is never, not possible as a thing even

((I am, apparently, maxed out on @ucme, but that’s not at all surprising.))

Apparently you can max out pretty quickly. I just GA/GQ’d everything on this page… and no one’s numbers changed. :( Lurve max for the fail.

(is there any way to find out who you’re maxed out on without hitting refresh every time you GA/GQ?)

I have no idea who I maxed out on or if there’s any way to tell. I just lurve when I feel something is deserving, no matter what or who it’s for.

I’ve been here a number of years & I still have no clue, or interest in how many max’s you out on a person, an elite few are certain to be on my list though, @Seek being one of them but that’s only because I lurve the arse off her & want to sire her offspring

Haha, let’s settle for those few pints at the pub quiz.

Spoilsport…upon quiet reflection, I think that’s almostly certainly the most appropriate course of action

I don’t count lurve points that I may be responsible for awarding as noted for more colorfully by @ucme‘s Carruthers, since I cannot imagine @ucme still composing and typing out his own responsese but I can tell you that I have “maxed out” in an entirely different way on some jellies from Day One, Question One (or Response One).

And I give out GAs these days sometimes if I can simply comprehend the response (and if I did actually read it) regardless of whether I agree or not.

I’m maxed on everyone in this thread.

@BellaB (is there any way to find out who you’re maxed out on without hitting refresh every time you GA/GQ?)
I discover it when I give out a very, very but well-deserved Atta boy, and I move to another question and see who I just gave an Atta boy got a GA seconds ago. Some I am surprised I have not maxed out on them because they have been here as long or as long as I have. Not to say they were not great contributors, but I feel an Atta boy is like an employee of the month award, if you gave it to everyone, every month, it has no significances. If I give one out, I want ti to be a very pertinent, meaty, and substantive answer of comment, even from people who set themselves up as my nemesis (for what reason, who knows).

@CWOTUS Ahem, it’s Carstairs old chap, Carruthers got fired 2yrs ago on xmas day, he refused to take part in the seasonal pelting of snowballs at the housestaff & left me with no option but to dispense with his services.

@Hypocrisy_Central It shows up as a GA in the community feed whenever anyone gets a GA but it doesn’t mean that you haven’t maxed out on them. They get the GA but their lurve score doesn’t go up.

I don’t understand the purpose to maxing people out. Nor do I know how to determine whether or not I have exceeded the GAs allotted a particular member. Every GA I award shows right up where it should. What is the limit? OK Once again, I see that I should read the entire thread before commenting. Perhaps the wily penguin can explain the point to limiting the lurve.

@stanleybmanly There’s no point to it; it’s the way the founders set it up. You can GA someone all you want but after you have given them 100 points, your GA won’t add to their total any more. The idea is to prevent friends from gaming the system but now that there are so few of us, it means nobody’s total goes any where fast. However, I don’t worry about whether I’ve maxed out on anyone when I award a GA. (There’s also something about only get point accrual from the first five GAs you get, but I never really worried about that either.)

@janbb It shows up as a GA in the community feed whenever anyone gets a GA but it doesn’t mean that you haven’t maxed out on them.
If they got a GA from someone else, I know it will show up. If I gave them the Atta boy and it shows up seconds later, then I guess I gave it to them. If I gave them an Atta boy and nothing registers, apparently mine did not help them, no matter who gave them what I did not know about, if another maxed out on them, then nothing would show on the general leaderboard.

The policy itself seems counterintuitive. The motive of preventing participants from “gaming” the system may well be achieved, but in actual practice the consequences must fall heavily on those who’ve been here longest, those who participate most, and those with the more astute answers. In other words, it is exactly the folks the site needs desperately who get slapped hardest.

@stanleybmanly Yeah, I’m crawling my way to 50,000 so that I can retire and die happy.

Dripping sarcasm, but I get it. We’re not here for the lurve.

Actually, we are.

@Hypocrisy_Central I think you are the only person I deliberately checked to see if I’d maxed out on, because I was pretty sure I had, and wanted to know for certain before saying so, during one of the many conversations we’ve had about lurve.

Before that, I had played around with GAing people and refreshing when I was first figuring out how the maxing-out rules worked. I have no idea who the people were whose lurve I tested.

@stanleybmanly “I don’t understand the purpose to maxing people out.”

I think this is designed to entice old-timers to interact with newbies. That really makes sense to me… there’s a tendency for people who know each other well to just talk amongst themselves, while new people’s questions are ignored. The max-out provides an incentive (for those who care about lurve) to help newcomers, because it’s the only way your lurve scores can go up if you’ve been here a long time.

Of course, that presupposes that there will be a constant influx of newcomers, and that isn’t so much the case these days. So, a relaxing of the max-out may be in order.

@Hypocrisy_Central “f I gave them an Atta boy and nothing registers, apparently mine did not help them,”

No, this is incorrect. The only reason your GA does not show up on Recent Activity is (1) there is so much activity that your GA was quickly pushed too far down the list for you to see (yeah, I’m laughing, too), or (2) there’s a glitch of some kind: maybe there’s a delay before your GA registers. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not your GA is pre- or post-max-out.

Apparently, I’m making multiple posts today; sue me.

^ (2) there’s a glitch of some kind: maybe there’s a delay before your GA registers. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not your GA is pre- or post-max-out.
The glitch would be if it took more than 40 minutes to show up, then it would be impossible to say where the lurve came from. On top of that, it would have to be known the lurve would not show up as quick as it apparently does most of the time.