It’s the esteem of the Fluther community, expressed in numerical form. When someone clicks the “Great Answer” or “Great Question” button, they’re giving someone lurve. The number next to your username is a rough indication of how much this has happened for a given user, but there are so many weird vagueries about how that score actually accumulates that it doesn’t actually mean much in the end.

Sex appeal. Hey you put this in social.

There’s a little link next to your lurve record that says What the…?. It explains lurve in a nutshell, and how it is scored.

….Baby don’t hurt me

sorry, sorry… couldn’t resist…..

@uberbatman I was just thinking that

Lurve is an unkind mistress.
Lurve is a diamond shaped like a turd.
Lurve is Mickey Mouse on crack.
Lurve finding a $20 bill stuck in your thong when you wake up in an alley smelling of vomit and failure.

It’s a state of mind that’s intended to make you feel good about yourself and your fellow Jellies while contributing intensely satisfying morsels of trivia and information which may or may not have a significant impact on someone’s reading pleasure within the Fluther realm.