Why is it that I get lurve for the answers I feel deserve it least and vice versa?

Come again?

I feel the same way. Off the cuff “throwaway” remarks tend to get recognition, while answers that I carefully thought out and crafted seem to be ignored.

Sarcastic answers get the most lurve. That’s just how it is here..

I sometimes think it’s who you know, not what you know (though certainly not in all instances).

I don’t like it when people make questions or discussions which just congratulate people who have reached 10k lurve or whatever. Its just them looking for lurve by getting “Great Question”. Perhaps not in all cases but in most I’d say

Because lurve is silly.

I never use sarcasm, for whatever that is worth. And I know very few people here. Usually quality and clarity earn the most respect. With each new wave of people, there are a lot of silly reactions to the lurve system. Like the tide, it will ebb.

I have put research and thought and links to sources in my hardest-working answers, but they usually don’t get lurved up. I think sometimes people pass them by with a skim, because they’re dry and academic when people would rather be arguing a hot button topic.

However, if you get a “good” argument going, where two factions are really going back and forth with venom and spite, each side will lurve up their own side to show support. Guilty as charged. The quicker the sarcasm and soundbites come, the shorter the post, the more riled up people are, the more likely to get the lurve. And the more people emotionally connect with a post, the more likely they are to click it, I think.

This isn’t true in every case, but I think people just don’t want to put work in to read the better, longer answers. Just like with elections – short quick soundbites are what people want, more’s the pity.

I’ve noticed a rash of questions lately about fluther itself. This happens from time to time, although usually not quite in such quantity. The curious thing, to me, is that each question tends to exhibit a generalization or conclusion about fluther that just is not necessarily true for others. It’s one thing to say “I experience it in this way” and quite another to say “It is this way.”

So, @LeotCol, I would have to say I don’t know—it isn’t like that for me. Awarding of points does often seem whimsical and arbitrary, but absolutely nothing like your polar opposites. I just think people use different systems for giving lurve and so it is not as predictable as you think it should be.

The only time I really get puzzled is when I see several comments explicitly complimenting an answer—like right below it, “Wow! Yeah! Great answer! You’re right!”—and yet GA still stands at zero.

Lurve is like love. You can’t demand it, you may not want it when it comes, and you jones for it when it is nowhere to be found. Welcome to Fluther…and life.

Lurve is blind.

@gailcalled . . . Meillä ei ole myöskään sisällä vitsejä.

I think people tend to reward answers that are witty and funny and not the ones that are well thought out and meaningful most of the time. I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with that, it’s just the way it is.

Yeah and nice guys finish last and bad boys get all the girls!! What was the question???

@Cruiser No shit, huh?

I will answer this question two ways. Once, with an honest remark. Second, with a pity, well thought out turn of a phrase worthy of Dorthy Parker or Oscar Wilde.
See which one gets more lurve.

Often times, my heartfelt response is only heard by people who have endured the described struggle, and can relate to it, and is lost on those who don’t grasp the difficulty, tragedy, or sorrow that lead to such a summation of guilt, shame, or pain. We only can relate to that we have felt, and don’t give credit to that we haven’t imagined.

Pull my finger.

Well thought out, informative answers are often very helpful to the OP, while they may be less helpful (or sometimes ignored) to the collective in general. Comedic answers are easily recognizable, and they reach a wider audience.I don’t mind this, I think we could all use a bit more laughter in our lives.

Whenever I ask a question, or I find a question that really relates to me, I take the time to really read the comments that flutherites post. I make sure to give lurve to the insightful, helpful, and thoughtful answers. On other questions, I might not take the same amount of time and care in reading each answer. It’s not that I don’t care or that I don’t think they are great answers, I just don’t get as drawn in to the question or topic at hand.

@filmfann: Um…Sorry to be the grinch today (well, not really) but it is a pity and a rule that we can’t label our own turns of phrase as being comparable to Parker or Wilde.

Part one makes a good point but gets lost in the niagara of words, some confusing. (What does ”a summation of guilt, shame or pain” mean, for example? Concatention or accumulation make more sense.)

I also disagree with your thesis; We only can relate to that (sic) we have felt, and don’t give credit to that (sic) we haven’t imagined. Can we not trust our feelings and also empathize with others’ miseries?

Part two has been used dozens of times.

(pithy)

@Blondesjon: Me ärsyttää kaikki mielestäni

I’m still puzzling over the wording of the details section.

@gailcalled . . . true dat

@syz, it’s meant to be metaphorical. He means that one is a great success and the other is treated as a shabby poor relation that can’t stand on its own.

@Jeruba: Then why not say that? I get tired of translating english to english sometimes.

@gailcalled The point of all that, really, was just the joke that something as inane and stupid as “pull my finger” would be comparable to Wilde or Parker. It’s absurd.
Once again, the joke ain’t funny if you have to explain it.

@filmfann: I did get the joke and your point. Sorry I was unclear…

Don’t ask me, @gailcalled. I’m just the intercessor.