Is there a way to find out who holds the record for the most lurve in a single day?

At the moment, I think AstroChuck holds the total highest lurve. If you are asking if there’s a way to see who scored the most lurve in a given day, such as who scored the most lurve yesterday…then no, there isn’t a way of finding this out. I bet the owners of the site could figure it out through some statistics, but there isn’t a way for the regular Flutherites to know.

Surely it doesn’t matter.

@juwhite: Surely you can come up with a reason why you want to know?

Surely the reason can be as simple as – because why not. And why does a question need to matter? Just look at the list of new questions at any given time. At least it’s not a question about AnswerBag.

@gailcalled – Well, I know it won’t be me, so it isn’t an ego thing. It might be fun to see what the highest lurve was in a single day is, and how far away your best day ever was, though. I don’t know… maybe because I’m competitive by nature, but more likely because I’m often curious about useless pieces of trivia (see my profile). The answer wouldn’t really matter, but I’d still like to know.

@juwhite1 NUNYA(745points) joined yesterday, possible contender?

I changed my profile pic today to get the sexy points.

@75movies – I’d love to know if NUNYA is a possible contender! And lurve for the totally sexy profile pic!

Nope.

Fluther isn’t about the lurve.
It’s about asking honest questions and not getting shitty answers like other sites.
Sure, the lurve and awards are cool, but really, It’s a community working together to solve problems or have thoughtful discussions.
Being silly is allowed, but keeping things relatively sane is a must

I confess – it was me.

I thought it mattered enough where I looked at all of the answers. I don’t know how anyone can say a certain question stated in all sincerity doesn’t matter. Statistics are interesting to some people, and I was glad to hear about AstroChuck, because he was my first welcome from the community.

Please know many of us came from a very competitive website where everything was ranked. This is fun so far, but we need a chance to enjoy it.

In my opinion, Fluther is a bit about the lurve… getting to give people cudos for well though out answers, or for questions that made you think. It is part of the fun of this site! Also, seeing who has high lurve lets us know who has been around awhile, and who understands the way Fluther works. That’s important, in my opinion, to helping this be a great site to go to.

The way the algorithm works, though, you can get many, many “Great Answers” without scoring any “lurve” at all, so it’s hard to tell whose answers garner the most positive response.

@pdworkin – Very good point! I hadn’t thought of that! Maybe I should rephrase to who got the most GA’s in a single day, or what the greatest number of GA’s in a single day is!

I don’t know that anyone keeps track. i get maybe 25 or 30 GA’s for each 5 points of lurve. That’s what happens when you’ve been around a while – everyone maxes out on you. (I’m not suggesting there’s anything special about me – that’s the way it works for everyone who has put in some time here)

And why it’s good to have an influx of new people – in addition to having new ideas and input, of course.

It’s not part of the fluther culture, generally, to keep score, or to look at records. This is very important for me, because I hate it when people get competitive. It starts to break up the community. The whole devolves into competing cliques. I object to any one of a number of questions that ask for scores or bests or who people like or who is the top whatever. They all have a divisive effect that may be subtle at first, but they are the flap of the butterfly wing that eventually grows into a hurricane.

Maybe it’s only my own sanity I am trying to protect here. All I know is that when scores get involved, it is incredibly easy for me to get sucked in and to start focusing on scores instead of on what I really enjoy: conversing with others (pontificating).

The other thing to say about metrics, is that it is not at all clear what they measure. It seems to me that having a large number of GAs in a day is pretty much related to how many hours you spend here in a day, and probably not so much to the quality of your answers. A more meaningful statistic would be GAs per answer. The number of GSs for any individual, however, is not available. So you can’t find any meaningful statistic because the data aren’t there. And that’s a good thing!

@daloon Oh, so sensible when we were being childish and competitive. :-)

@daloon – Good points! Thanks!

@janbb Lessons learned the hard, hard way. Oh, did I mention it was really hard, learning those lessons? It was a very painful time in my life, and I don’t want to return there—at least, not that way.

Probably Zen. Not me, the old psycho zen who lived online for a while. Okay, that was me, but it’s not me now.

I’m totally with @daloon on this.