My brain is exploding...how is it possible for one Flutherite to have written twice as many repsonses as another and yet only have about half the lurve score of that other?

If they’re a more recent addition, that explains some of it. For one, the longer you’re here, the longer you get those points for logging in every day. There’s also a learning curve to deal with in the beginning, so the earliest answers may not have been terribly helpful. Lastly, though I hate to admit it, people are more prone to give lurve to those they know. As this person becomes more well known, they’ll likely get more lurve. Of course, it all evens out because of the lurve cap, so it’s not really important at all. :)

As far as a jelly writing twice as maney responses and getting half as much lurve, maybe he is going for quantity not quality.

Look at his answers. Maybe they are dull. I reached 10K in a world record 24 minutes because I am so fascinating.

And good looking, too.

de gustibus, etc.

;-) Muah.

I can’t see the forest for the bullshit around here.

@Spinel, to answer your question, Lurve does not have to do only with attendance and answering questions, although those are prerequisites, and it has nothing really to do with who you know, except that over time, more familiar with the quality of the answer. People award lurve for different reasons. Many people who ask a question give it everyone who answers who isn’t being a smartass. Other people give it when the information is thought-provoking or helpful. Other jellies, when reading the answers, award lurve for the same reason, and very often give it as an endorsement of an answer, a “me too!” validation.

I agree with everything @PandoraBoxx said except that some of us give it to smartasses too when they are funny.

@janbb, true. I was thinking of the unfunny ones.

The answer, dear sir (if you are a sir—dear madame, otherwise), is that your lurve per answer and question rate adjusted by length of stay decay is about four times higher than your flutheree’s. That means that your IQ comes in somewhere around 140, while your flutheree’s IQ barely breaks 100.

This is all very good and well, except for one thing. There is a peculiar clause in the secret hidden manual of the fluther competition (which I should not be mentioning, lest I be thrown in the fluther dungeon, from which I have escaped only two times), and that is that if you happen to be in the fluther of someone who gains lurve at four times the time-adjusted rate that you do, and their name begins with S and their avatar is a member of the feline species, then you may justifiably commit homicide (or femicide) upon said person on any full moon that occurs on a Friday (in which case there is a high likelihood that your brain really would explode).

My advice to you, dear sir (or madame, should that be the proper felicitation (don’t mind me—I’m losing my memory for words)), is that you change your avatar maintenant and tout de suite. I’d suggest you change your name, too, but that is a difficult process and there is a limited time period in which you can do it, except for special circumstances. (A fact that actually really truly is in the hidden fluther manual for moderators and managers).

Need I say more? ;-)

@wundayatta Need I say more? ;-)
Please don’t. I have no idea what you said in the first place!. :)

I pick a letter everyday at random and award lurve to those nicknames that start with it.

Aw damn! And I thought that was righteously funny. I’ve lost my touch (and those of you who thought I never had it to begin with can just shut up!) I think I’m gonna go drink some Koolaid.

@wundayatta You’ve always had the touch.

@wundayatta You have the touch and the look. Of course, I miss the butt cheeks but that’s another story. While reading your response I laughed, I cried, I peed. Put the Koolaid down my friend. Now back away from it. Good. See? Lurve.
All better? XOXO

Phew! [wipes sweat off brow, lets @Trillian dispose of koolaid in a sugar-free environment (what? you thought it was Jim Jonesed?!?)]