Your Fluther score is a rather superficial, aggregate measure of your contributions to the collective.
Our hope is that you don’t think too much about it. If you regularly make positive contributions to the collective, you’ll get lots of lurve. Your score will increase. Doves will fly free and all will be right in the world.
Sadly, there have been a few incidents of artificial score inflation, which we saw as cheating. Even though we recognize that score doesn’t matter all that much, it didn’t seem fair to allow cheating to continue unchecked, so we altered the score algorithm to deter it.
This is an area where we don’t want to be too transparent because doing so would only aide those trying to beat the system. Here’s all you need to know: every time another user gives you a “Great Answer” or “Great Question”, it’ll show up as lurve. The vast majority of the time, this will also result in an increase in your overall score. If it looks like it doesn’t, don’t worry about it too much.
Your activity on the site should drive your score; not the other way around.