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Do you guys think there are people on Fluther that "stalk" you using lurve?

Asked by jtvoar16 (2176points) November 29th, 2008

I have been on fluther, pretty much non-stop for the last few weeks and have noticed that I am getting a lot of lurve for some of my answers that just don’t seem to warrant lurve (in my option.)
So that got me thinking about the lurve system, and how it is kind of like a “Gold Star” system.
Then that recalled a time in elementary school. When I was in forth grade, the teacher used colored stars to represent how good you had been in class. Anyway, long story short:
One of my classmates was a total spoiled asshate, always should have gotten into trouble, but he was the son of the the teachers husbands boss. So she let him get away with murder, so in a twisted way, it might help her husband get a better job. She gave him Green Stars (The best star) everyday, and I, who was actually a very good student, not having any friends to get into trouble with, got a green star, maybe once a month.
So then, back to my original thought, I wonder if such things ever happen here on fluther? I mean you can’t figure out who gave you lurve, but if you are as obsessive as I am, and paranoid, you can draw deluded conclusions on the people who give you lurve. I always pretend the person who asked the question, or the very next person to answer after me, gave me the lurve. Obviously I know that anyone can give luve at any point, and do, but this method makes me feel fluffy inside.

Anyway, I was just thinking about that idea, here, at 4:00 in the morning.

Just to clarify: I am not asking about changing the lurve system, or even saying it is a bad thing, I love it. I am just wondering if anyone else thinks about it as much as I do. I just don’t want this question to get modded off.

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jlm11f's avatar

Ok. mmm i am trying to follow your logic. I don’t understand how giving someone lurve enables the lurve-giver to stalk the lurve-receiver though. Can you explain that?

bythebay's avatar

…There’s just not enough lurve in the world.

Snoopy's avatar

…Lurve makes the world go ‘round.

bythebay's avatar

…oooooh baby, I lurve your way.

chyna's avatar

Nobody stalking me. :(

Snoopy's avatar

Peace, lurve and happiness…

bodyhead's avatar

I’m right there with you man.

What probably happened is… those people thought you were giving them lurve so they wanted to give some back. Maybe? I don’t know. You’re paranoid.

peedub's avatar

I think you’re over thinking it.

Darwin's avatar

Fluffy inside?

bythebay's avatar

…but how can you still lurve me?...

bythebay's avatar

…nothing heals a broken heart like time, lurve & tenderness…ok, I’ll stop now

Snoopy's avatar

..lurve me tender…

ahhh, Elvis.

OK, I will stop too

laureth's avatar

The teacher stood to gain by giving that kid green stars – perhaps she kept her job or was considered for raises or something. If I lurve you, what do I get? Nothing. So I don’t see the motivation, except to reach consensus on lurveable answers.

bodyhead's avatar

Lurve is actually a lot like those green stars. It doesn’t really mean jack to anyone.

shadling21's avatar

Lurve is kind of like those green stars, except there is a limit. It’s hard to hoard points on one person that way.

I say take your lurve and smile!

laureth's avatar

Lurve on the run!

cookieman's avatar

Lurve stinks! Yeah, yeah. Lurve stinks

Can’t buy me lurve; everybody tells me so.

When I think about you I lurve myself.

scamp's avatar

Let’s not forget the ever-popular Partidge Family song…

I’m sleeping
And right in the middle of a good dream
like all at once I wake up
From something that keeps knocking at my brain
Before I go insane
I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed
Screaming out the words I dread:
“I think I lurve you!” (I think I lurve you)

This morning, I woke up with this feeling
I didn’t know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I’d hide it to myself
And never talk about it
And didn’t I go and shout it
When you walked into my room.
“I think I lurve you!” (I think I lurve you)

I think I lurve you
So what am I so afraid of?
I’m afraid that I’m not sure of
A love there is no cure for
I think I lurve you
Isn’t that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
I’ve never felt this way

Believe me
You really don’t have to worry
I only want to make you happy
And if you say,
hey, go away, I will
But I think better still
I ought to stay around and lurve you
Do you think I have a case?
Let me ask you to your face:
Do you think you lurve me?
I think I lurve you!

This song is also fun if you substitute the words “I think I’m pregnant” for I think I love you, ha ha ha!!

cak's avatar

I’m lurving everyone that used lurve in a song reference! I missed something in the question…I like the lurve, it’s pretty cool and a simple way to make someone’s day. (If they like lurve!)

My 5 year old is confused, though…sometimes, I slip and tell him that I lurve him, instead of love. Gotta write it on a sticky note…stop telling the 5yr old that I lurve him…only LOVE! :)

If lurving you is wrong, then I don’t want to be right!

asmonet's avatar

Sometimes I lurve people because I like them, or the answer reinded me of something else, something you could be entirely unaware of. I wouldn’t think too much about it. Just because you can’t fathom the reasoning doesn’t mean someone didn’t get something of value out of your words.

Just another reason to think before you speak. You never know what’s happening on the other end.

scamp's avatar

I lurved you too cak!

Mizuki's avatar

I have childhood issues too….

galileogirl's avatar

Can you actually lurve yourself and when would you do it? On a long lonely night when you can’t sleep?

A lurve-stalker must be very lonely because s/he doesn’t even get the satisfaction of recognition. S/he will never know the stalker is watching because lurve is anonymous. Is that what bothers you, jtvoar? Are you a stalker or a stalkee? If it helps imagine me standing across the street watching your every post. WAH-HA-HA-HA

scamp's avatar

My fluther-stalker is in a tree outside my window!

jtvoar16's avatar

I meant “stalk” more like “when you gave secret love notes in highschool.” It was 4 in the morning when I wrote that, “stalk” was the best word I could think of.

cak's avatar

@scamp – thank you! :)

@galileogirl – lol…hey, at least you’ll announce if you are going to stalk someone!

@jtvoar16…lurve to you for asking this at 4am…I was probably snoring!

scamp's avatar

@cak You’re more than welcome!

Snoopy's avatar

@jtoar If you can figure out why I got GA here, you win a prize:

http://www.fluther.com/disc/28533/who-wants-to-play-the-song-title-game/#quip311414

not that I am ungrateful, lurve givers :)

Darwin's avatar

@Snoopy – it’s obvious. You’re being stalked by the Masked Lurve Bandit.

Snoopy's avatar

(sinking lower and peeking slowly around monitor)

jtvoar16's avatar

Wow, I never thought this would become… ^that.
Thanks to all of you for your… um… creative responses! I would give lurve to all of you… but then I would be the stalker… or kid with the love note… or whatever you want to call me ;) So instead I shall give random lurve and see what happens!
Hehehe.

cak's avatar

@Snoopy…it’s gotta be Woodstock, Clearly, he is obsessed. He allows you to stand on his head.

Snoopy's avatar

@cak. Woodstock told me it was OK. I swear.

Tantigirl's avatar

jtvoar16 – so are you worried that someone might be getting a stalker just thinking about lurving you?!!!

;)

jtvoar16's avatar

I am my own lurve stalker\little boy with a note!

cak's avatar

@snoopy….uh huh…sure! ;~)

cheebdragon's avatar

I’m with peedub on this one…....

jtvoar16's avatar

But it is fun, and it gives my mind something else to do besides be board and be self-destructive.

cheebdragon's avatar

Whatever floats your boat….

jtvoar16's avatar

@cheebdragon:
Mainly Jello and the tears of those who I have crushed beneath my mighty awesomeness!

maybe_KB's avatar

he-he-he-ehe-he-he-he

What?

Comedian's avatar

who doesn’t stalk me these days lol jk jk…sorta

toomuchcoffee911's avatar

…oh, you can’t hurry lurve, no you just have to wait, oh, lurve don’t come easy, it’s a game of give or take…

desiree333's avatar

@scamp BEST song ever. I sometimes sing it around my dog, he gets this confused look and it cracks me and my mom up.

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