I thought I'd finally ask: when giving lurve do you consider which awards that jelly might win?

What awards?

Nope.

no. The math is too hard.

I don’t think we should put too much thought into something like Lurve.

Never.

I agree with @TheCreative.
Lurve should be given when you want to give it, not because it will get someone an award.. or keeping it because it will get someone an award (if that’s what you’re thinking).
Besides, looking at other profiles every time I want to give a GA or GQ is too much work.

no, i just give it to answers i like. and if i ask a question, ill give the answers some lurve just to be polite and say thanks.

it it happens to cause an award, so be it.

I do it for sure. If i see a 9 or 6 I always lurve it.

Lurve grows by giving. The lurve we give away is the only lurve we keep.

The only way to retain lurve is to give it away.

Or something close to that ;D
~Elbert Hubbard

No. I’ve never actually thought about it.

I never give the awards much thought when lurving.

Hey, I can barely remember to buy toothpaste and fill up the gas tank.

if its a good answer and I think it deserves lurve it gets it regardless :)

Nope. I don’t really care. If it’s lurveworthy, it gets lurve.

I have never read the awards.

I have yet to understand these awards. They seem silly and supernumerary to me. I don’t know which action deserves which award, and I pay no attention to my own, besides finding some of the names a little embarrassing.

If even one person considers this, then the awards are a bad thing.

I’ve done that. I don’t take awards very seriously, but they are fun – so why not?

The awards introduce a competitive thing into fluther. This kind of competition starts bringing strife between people who are competing for something. They might start flagging their competitors answers more often.

This kind of thing can start innocently, and then it can get serious. That’s what happened over at Askville. At first people were all in it together, and there was no gaming the system. Then someone started really taking it seriously. She stepped on a lot of toes, and people formed camps, and the next thing you knew, high school had broken out, and then real feelings got hurt and it just kept on going downhill from there.

I would not be one bit surprised if that were to happen here, now that there are awards. Someone will start taking them seriously, and then the shit will hit the fan. We are better off without them.

It’s only competitive if you make it competitive. And yes, I do believe that.

It just opens the door for someone to make it competitive. You have no idea how this will effect fluther when it happens. Maybe people will just laugh it off. Maybe others will get sucked in. Why take the risk? Especially when the risk is pretty big. We aren’t so different from Askville that this can’t happen.

@daloon At least for now, no one seems to be taking them very seriously. I mean, I could certainly do without them, but I’m not sure they are a clear and present danger. Yet.

Competatative? Since I’ve maxed-out on lurve for so many it’s another way of showing appreciation. And I do think that the answer/question deserves the lurve.

I can’t even remember what awards there are, so I’m completely indifferent to that side of things. You’d think I would know them by heart. I am a bad mod.

Awards or points or whatever don’t enter into it for me. If I think someone gives a great answer or asks a great question: CLICK!

I never have.

When I consider giving someone lurve, my decision is based upon whether they give a really good answer to a question. I try to stick to that policy as much as possible although sometimes I falter. But not very often. I think.

I only just recently figured out the rewards but they don’t influence how I give lurve at all. I also know for some people who have consistent great answers, the lurve I give them probably isn’t even counting or showing up so I usually wait a day after they post to throw my two cents in and other times I just click away. Whatever.

I have no interest in the so-called awards. I think they do us no good.

hasn’t even crossed my mind! i like the awards, but i don’t pay a lot of mind to them whatsoever.

@wundayatta

We’re different from askville in many ways that stop us from being super competitive with lurve.

1. You can only give a maximum of 100 lurve to any user, total. Ever.
2. Lurve is lurve. We don’t have Smart Lurve, Good Answer Lurve, we just have Lurve.
3. The awards are obscure. Nobody cares about them, except for the super rare awards.
4. We’re much more mature than Askville, or most of the Internet for that matter.
5. If, against all reason, this does start happening, hardly anyone will take part.

No. I have long forgotten about the awards.

What astrochuckie said.

Sometimes. I like giving a response I like its 10th “Great Answer”, too. It’s fun.