Do you ever congratulate someone on here for lurve achievement if you are not familiar with that user?

Yes, getting an achievement is reason enough for congratulations.

I think a lot of people show up just for the lurve that is freely distributed during the “parties.”

I usually only congratulate those I am familiar with and whose answers (while not necessarily agreeing with my own) impress me with their sincerity and relevance.

For the smaler amounts (5k, 10k) I congratulate only people I’m familiar with. For the bigger amounts I’ll congratulate people I don’t know too. But it depends on someone posting the “question” because otherwise I will very rarely notice that the milestone has been reached.

For 5K, I only PM those I’m familiar with. For 10K and up, everybody, cuz well hooray for them for being here enough to get there! (I don’t do it for the lurve, I just like a good party…)

For 10K and up, I congratulate everyone, even folks I don’t necessarily get along with. I definitely don’t do it for the lurve, (most of it doesn’t count for me anymore, anyway).

I congratulate each achievement I see. Whenever I see that someone reached 5k, I send them a PM saying congrats and I do the same for the 10K, 20K, and 30K (as well as joining the parties).

This is my life:
I look on the 15 minutes of fame listing, and see sshole got a 10K. Hmm, I don’t remember seeing that name before. Is it male or female?
I check the meta listing to see if there is a congrats question yet.
I check their biography, and try and figure out their sex. Still unsure. I read some of their answers.
I check the congrats page. No one who has already posted has committed themselves to knowing much about this person.
Okay, need to say WTG!... I begin by typing their name.
”@sshole”...
oh, guess it’s a guy…

Regarding whether I congratulate anyone who disagrees with me, I always do.
10k, 20k, and beyond are great achievements. Even if they argue with me at every turn (I am looking at you dpworkin), it is still worthy of a moments respect.

I try to congratulate as many users as I can but don’t get to all. The parties don’t get me any more lurve than usual because everyone’s maxed out on me, anyhow.

Yes, I just usually leave it at Congratulations without writing anything more personal if I have not interacted with the user a lot.

I guess personally I am more likely to give a congratulations on 5k with only the few rare users that I pm with back and forth. For 10k or more I am more likely to acknowledge a user (even one I disagree with on most issues) just because I am somewhat familiar with them in some way rather than someone I am not familiar with.

I asked this question because I’ve noticed quite a few users that hit several milestones with lurve but I either never heard of them or we are rarely in the same topic discussions.

No.

I try to grats everyone, even the ones I don’t “like”.

Yes I try to congrat people on reaching 5, 10, 20, and even 30K.

What about 15k, I am rapidly approaching that mark. I might have to throw my own party because I don’t see that one being recognized???

I think no one who reached 5K or higher was totally unfamiliar to me.