It’s an imperfect system.

Sometimes I think the lurve is over-generous, and sometimes I feel I’ve given great comments which were overlooked.

I think lurve tends to over-value short & clever phrasing.

And of course, it’s a one-dimensional pile that just accumulates over time, and has a cap per lurver.

But I still lurve and crave it.

I mean you get a great answer or other, but your lurve score doesn’t go up.

That’s because of the limit per lurver I mentioned. GA’s only add to your lurve a certain number of times per person who gives it to you. So to increase your total lurve, you need different people to give you GA’s and GQ’s who haven’t reached the maximum yet.

Sometimes the lurve is awarded with a time delay.

The rule of thumb is that you can get GA points about 20 times from a single jelly, or about 100 total. After that, they can add to your number of GAs on a post, but your lurve score won’t increase. And only the first five GAs per post count anyway. So the most you can get on one post is 25 points, for 5 GAs, and it’ll be less if anyone who GAs you has already maxed out on you.

So, for example, a few days ago ten people GA’d a comment of mine, but my lurve score did not increase by one point. Sometimes weeks go by and the only change I see is the one point for signing in on consecutive days. In a way that’s a nice compliment, don’t you think? I take it that way.

It also means that new users’ scores are going to go up really fast—because no one is maxed out on them yet. But it may take old-timers many weeks to see even 100 points, especially if they don’t go and try to court newcomers whose GAs still count for them.

I actually think this is a very good system, even brilliant. It offers high encouragement to newcomers, but over the long term it decreases the effect of the scores people get. As a result, there’s no reasonable way to play for scores (and gaming the system is frowned upon). People don’t have little gangs of fans who instantly GA everything they post—or if they do, it has the opposite effect because it fills up those five slots and keeps others’ upvotes from counting.

The result, in general, is to downplay the competitive aspect and just keep it fun, as it’s supposed to be.

How would I know? If the awarding of points is rigged, there is little point to assigning them significance. I supppse cumulative totals are a very rough gauge on length of time here, levels of participation and popularity of answers. But since points accumulate according the “formula” laid out by @Jeruba, no one can possibly know what’s what.

Don’t give a rat’s arse, just silly, ultimately pointless numbers.
On a related note, it’s amusing how many ‘game play’ with this shit…no really :D

Must admit to having no interest in my lurve score and never wondering if it was awarded accurately, the thought has never crossed my mind to be honest.

Yes.

I can’t help but wonder how the lurve gets handed out. Does the server/computer do it, or does a mod? And who’s to stop a mod from not handing out deserved lurve if that particular mod doesn’t like you?

It’s programmed, @kritiper.

Don’t care about lurve, not sure why anyone would. It’s an opinion site, if I had high lurve, I’d think I was a failure in not thinking outside the box and being far too agreeable….lol

@Jeruba OK, but who’s the programmer?? Who is the big kahuna? WHO PUSHES THE BUTTONS??? By God, this site must have a god…and it ain’t some machine…and this god can’t be perfect..

@kritiper Ben and Andrew are the imperfect kahuna.

@longgone Thank you! No disrespect intended!

^ None perceived. It’s a valid question. For what it’s worth, the system is designed to log even quite small changes, along with who made them. So it’s not enough for one person to dislike you (and be corrupt enough to act on it). It would also need the tacit approval of everyone else.

Thanks again.
And I forgot to thank you, @Jeruba , for your input on the subject.

Lurve lurve me do, you know I lurve you….so please…...lurve me do!

Been thinking about this & there’s no doubt had I been a crowdpleasing, play it safe member i’d more than likely be at least 10k better off. Considering my sarcasm, frivolous & dare I say devil may care approach, it’s a fucking miracle my numbers reached these heights XD