Now hear me out, while the above answers are very liberal and true to most eyes what lies beneath the descriptions and how things really work are different story in fluther.
I, myself, have noticed that there have been times where posts with better, more detailed answer didn’t get as much lurve compared to the following, same/less informative posts posted in the same thread by other members. You can justify that not all people read all the posts in the same thread. However, I can’t shake the feeling that people seem to prefer the answers from certain members, and if you’re well-known senior member you’ll tend to get more lurve despite your answer is just so-so or not better than answers posted by not-so-well-known members.
I couldn’t care less about lurve and if people want to play favoritism that is fine too with me. What we need to know is that the quality of the post can’t be tarnished by the amount of lurve it gets, the point of lurve here is to show how many people like post based on their personal liking/standard.