@JonnyCeltics In a race between tortoise and hare, Fluther puts its bets on the tortoise. The lurve is really a mark of seniority if anything.
You get lurve for every day you log in, and you get lurve for being followed by people. Regardless of how amazing your responses/questions are here, you’ll get a lot of lurve over time from these two.
There’s a maximum amount of lurve you can get from a specific user (100). If you write absolutely mindblowingly great responses/questions over the course of a month, you’re likely to get capped on these users, and not really get much more lurve.
But if you play the “slow and steady” game, you won’t get capped for as many users, given how people come and go.
Additionally, there’s a maximum amount of lurve you can get on an answer (25). After the 5th “GA”, you don’t get any more on that response. So if you write responses that get 20 GAs, you’re still getting your score just as high as someone who consistently gets 5 GAs, even though more people appreciated yours than theirs.
You could try looking at (Lurve/Length of membership), but that doesn’t factor in the user’s participation. Some of my favorite users barely write a single response per week, but every one that they do is just astounding.
You could try looking at (Lurve/Responses), but that doesn’t factor in the lurve gained from writing questions. And there certainly are users who have high question:answer ratios. So that’s an unfair comparison as well.
They really should make it easier for me to boast about how much better than everyone else I am. I’ll have to see what I can do about this.
I may’ve spent way too much time on this response.