What is your cuttlefish number? Should fluther publish more user statistics?

this is horribly inaccurate for those of us that have been on the site for a while do to lurve caps from other users

@uberbatman is right. It wont work because of lurve caps. My score (not that I care) should be way higher but many can no longer give me lurve.

Oh I thought you were saying “cudde-fish”, that was a lot cuter.

I disagree about lurve caps. If everyone is subject to the same caps, it is a level playing field. Your score would be higher because your friends would have more power to give you lurve. But lurve caps are just since they require you to impress more than just a few people with your wit or answers.

Therefore, lurve caps make the cuttlefish score more effective, not less effective.

@timothykinney no…not really. You havent been on this site long at all thus no one has maxed out on you so your “cuttle-fish” score will be much higher than mine since ive been on here for over a year and many users have maxed out on me. But in reality my lurve per answer average can be much higher than that of yours, something you cant calculate due to said caps.

paulc’s old app used to calculate all of this quite nicely but it doesnt work anymore :(

@uberbatman You’ve only been signed up for one month longer than me. I appreciate that you spend more time on fluther than I do, but I’ve been on here for over a year too.

As for users maxing out, that’s exactly my point. Your cuttlefish number would be higher because you get a lot of lurve from your friends on Fluther. Same for me. But we’re both subject to the same cap, so there’s no unfairness. It doesn’t reflect the total lurve your friends would have given you per response (naturally), but it does reflect the amount of lurve you have per response. It’s not a valueless metric.

I think I can see why you’re against including such a metric, however. Thanks for your input.

Even if someone is not interested in a lurve/response metric (because they are afraid of lurve caps lowering it), they might still be interested in responses/day metrics. For @uberbatman, for example, I calculated:

6468 responses in 748 days = 8.65 responses per day. That’s impressive! I’m only about 0.6 per day. :(

Besides lurve we have all these awards and the listings in the Community Feed. Do we really need to add something else? It’s complicated enough for me.

@timothykinney Im not afraid of my score being lowered…. I can care less about rank and what not, im just saying your system is flawed. :)

Those who answer less questions will pretty much always have a higher “score” than those who frequent the site often. (baring the fact the less answer question person isnt a moron :P)

As for the other stat you listed, this too was in paulc’s wonderful no longer working app :P

It sounds like I am the minority.

I really don’t think I need another gauge to show how much I suck at this.

I am not interested in doing any kind of stats with lurve. This gives it false importance. We already pay too much attention to it as is.

Back when I was in elementary school, there was a lot less sensitivity about some things that we treat with care now. I don’t think anyone had ever heard of self-esteem. One of the Valentine’s Day customs was to count how many valentines you received from your classmates (because there were no rules about bringing them for everybody in the class) and announce your total. They truly were an index of popularity. My third-grade teacher chose that opportunity to teach us about bar graphs. I still remember the face of the little girl who got only three in a class of more than thirty kids. Let us not do this on fluther, all right?

My score should be way higher, too, except so many people can’t stand me.