Is there a way to calculate unmodified lurve?

I don’t think so.

I suppose you could count a few pages, average them, and multiply by the number of pages, but I don’t see the point. It would have no meaning.

Once I did add up a day’s points and saw that without the caps it would have been something like 170, but in actuality it was only 15. I’m sure it’s similar for anyone with a high score, when most of the folks around have already maxed out and most of their points for a question are over the scoring limit. But this isn’t like saying “How much would I take home if I didn’t pay taxes?” Real dollars are real dollars, and lurve, bless it, is only lurve.

“Lurve oh lurve, oh careless lurve
Lurve oh lurve, oh careless lurve
Oh it’s Lurve oh lurve, oh careless lurve
You see what careless lurve has done.”

(Sorry, I’m just in a singing mood today.)

If you go to your profile and click on Lurve For You, it lists all your lurve, even if they don’t count I think. It would be tedious.

Each page has 25 entries. Assuming each one is a GA that is 100. But then there is also the other things too so we will call it 95 per page.

Mine is 630 pages long. So 95 * 630 = 59850

25812 / 59850 = ~43%

I would love it if someone with access to the database would check and see how close I came.

@johnpowell, 25 X 5 is 125. But entry length can very a little because the snippets vary a little. If page length is defined as 25 entries, then it’s 25; but if it’s by number of characters, it could be plus or minus 1 or 2, right?

I think 95 out of 100 is too high a proportion when you consider +1 for consecutive days, +2 for being added to fluthers, and +3 for GQs. An average is only an average, but my guess would be closer to 85 or 90. If I were doing this, I think I’d use about 87% just to be on the conservative side; or, out of 125, 108.75. Let’s say 109: figure about 109 points for every page. Ballpark at best.

Shit. I fail at math.

On my last page of lurve I only have one entry that isn’t a GA. Same on page 2. Same on page three.

Ok, I checked my last 5 pages, and like you I averaged one per page that isn’t a GA. But you and I post a lot of comments, so our ratios may not be typical. Still, I’ll go with your 1 in 25 for the sake of argument. So that’s 120 points per page plus let’s say an average of 2 because the other one is going to be +1 or +2 or +3:

(no. of pages) x 120
+
(no. of pages) x 2

or simply

(no. of pages) x 122

For you, then, 630 x 122 = 76860

It’s still all academic anyway. It means nothing.

@Jeruba @johnpowell you guys are awesome.