@dynamicduo Even if it were in the faq, do you think anyone would read it? Do you think anyone will take the time to find one of the dozens of questions that have been asked about this? Nope. What we need is a standard answer that answers this question automatically.
@rooeytoo Fellow flutherites have a maximum of lurve they can give you. I think it’s 100. After that, they can give you GAs, but it won’t add to your lurve. The stated reason is that it is to prevent gaming of the system. You don’t want friends lurving each other all over the place, endlessly, just to push up your lurve.
What it means, in reality, is that you have to keep on writing answers that appeal to more and more people. After a while, only new people’s lurve will add to your score. So it gets harder and harder to get new lurve the higher the amount of lurve you have. It makes it challenging, and is kind of interesting in a way, because you do have to find a way to extend your network of people who appreciate your comments.
It makes me wonder what the average score of a flutherer is when they first start to notice this phenomenon. I can’t remember when I first did, but I figured it was probably a common thing. Despite that, I actually had the question written before I decided to research it.
I wish I had access to the underlying database here. There are so many interesting questions one could ask about flutherers if one had such access.