No biggie, but... Do you notice members that never give lurves?

How do you know that someone never gives GA’s?

@BoBo1946 I do know that you are very generous with the lurve! Happy New Year friend!

@janbb well, if they follow your answer with an answer and you never see anyone…not just me… with lurves, you have a hunch. also, there are members here that I’ve written several responses to over the last year that have never said one word back. hint hint… i know, everyone doesn’t like everyone. anyway, it’s an observation.

My man the Cruse… and i know you do also. Happy New Year my good friend!

@BoBo1946 Oh yeah; I wasn’t meaning to be critical, just curious. I guess I do tend to notice it the other way; if I get a GA and see the next person who has responded, I think, “Oh neat, @BoBo1946 gave me a GA.” (Although it could also be a random reader who has not responded.)

oh, I know those @janbb ! After a while, you get to know who loves you and who doesn’t. I know you love me and i love you… i made you mad early, but you forgave me. That made me happy.

I do think there is a danger in confusing lurve with love. :-)

loll… well, it’s a form of “love lurves.” (better name) Danger… naw… maybe being over sensitive which would be a fault of mine. Not a good morning. I’m out of there. Have a good one.

Feel better, my friend!

You know what? I often forget to give GAs on questions that aren’t mine. If it’s my question, I give a GA to every answer as long as it’s on topic and they’ve somehow answered my query. Otherwise, I often don’t even think about it. Thanks for reminding me :)

PS: If it was me that you noticed, sorry :)

I don’t notice. I do notice if my answer gets lurve. Sometimes I am surprised when maybe I gave a GA for a fantastic answer, and I am the only one. But, I never notice whose question it is.

I think that I have noticed a handful of people that don’t give lurve very often, and alternatively, I have noticed a few members that are very generous with lurve.

I have noticed recently that I am becoming more forgetful of clicking. Which makes me sad, and a bit disappointed in myself, because I have always really enjoyed giving lurve. Makes me feel like I’ve gotten too comfortable – in a less than great way. I enjoy giving lurve because I know it’s a little positive thing that I can do for my fellow jellies, who I adore, and to forget that makes me feel badly. I need to snap out of that quickly.

My motto: Give lurve generously, it doesn’t cost you a thing.

Lurve should not be a factor when asking/answering questions….

It shouldn’t matter if you get it…or….you don’t get it…

when it starts to matter if you don’t get it…...It’s time for a Fluther vacation…

How can you tell who does or doesn’t give lurve? I can see if someone gets a Good Answer because of the numbers, but how would you know who it came from?

@diavolobella sometimes if you just pay attention to patterns it becomes obvious who gives lurve and who doesn’t. Of course there is no way to know for sure, but sometimes it is just easy to tell.

@diavolobella One way to know for sure is if there are no GA’s in a thread. The asker obviously isn’t giving GA’s. Of course, perhaps they didn’t think any answers were good enough to deserve lurve.

I’m a lurve ho, if you couldn’t tell. I give a lot, even though I’m pretty well maxed out with most of the veteran jellys.

^Or just a ho. :-)

Just to show how well I put up with smartasses, here’s a little lurve.

@TheOnlyNeffie and @chyna I follow now. Thanks!

@chyna touche my friend.

Got to run everyone. Have a great New Years!

See you next year.

See ya BoBo! Happy New Year.

Happy New Year Bobo. I too like to share the lurve – sure why not?!

@stardust Agreed. You can’t take the lurve with you when we go to the great fluther in the sky.

Some love lurve, some don’t (so they say) give a damn.
Some get more lurve then other’s, some just get spam.
If you ask a question, the least a Jelly could do
Is to show lurve to all that took time to answer you.
What does it cost to give lurve, after all it’s all in fun;
Like the OP said ‘there are very few great answers…a lot of good ones’.

Just another humble attempt at poetry. Somebody, tell me to give it up.:D

I like big Lurve and I cannot lie
You other Jellies can’t deny! :)

I have noticed that new members often do not give lurve. I think they just haven’t caught on yet.

You shouldn’t just give a little bit
When the pot of lurve is infinite!

What I find ironic is when someone writes GA, but your lurve is still zero.

I think a lot of people give lurve in their minds and hearts, but don’t click the GA button.

@wundayatta Could be they’ve maxed out.

No idea how you could even tell..people have different standards for giving lurve…why should they give lurve if they don’t feel like it?

@Adirondackwannabe You can still give a GA even if you’ve maxed out on lurve. I think I mispoke myself. I meant the GA was 0 even though the person took the time to write “GA” in a comment. It’s even more ironic when when they tell you they wish they could give you 100 GAs, and you have none.

This maxing out on lurve is news to me – you can only give a certain amount each day?

@Seelix No, you can only give 100 lurve points to each member ever.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – Wow, I had no idea. Thanks!

@Seelix You also can give GQ’s at 3 points a pop to other jellys up to a certain limit, I’m not sure what the max is.

Just happened again. Someone just told me my answer was “perfect” and yet I have no GAs at all. I figure that people are more excited about the answer than clicking on the little button. I don’t take it personally.

If it’s someone that I think I have maxed out on, I might wait to give them a GA until after they already have 5 GAs so they at least have a shot of actually getting the lurve from the 5 GAs (since we only actually get lurve for the first 5 GAs per response).

I give anyone that answers my questions a GA and any answer I like a GA (and by like I mean well-written, thought provoking, etc, not just that I agree with them). :-)

Sometimes it just irritates me when I think I gave a really good and long answer and I dont get any lurve for it, but in reference to people not giving the lurve, I think I like that kind of challenge because it helps users or I should say prompts users to try to give good answers. I cant hate on anybody personally of course for not giving me lurve but I try my best to answer as accurately as I can to try to get at least 2 good answers from it. That way I know that I contributed something that the user can use. I take the lurve as a definite challenge and I love the idea of scoring a persons answer.

I’m noticing the lurve quotient today more than usual because of this question, but also because my number is teetering on the edge of 5,000. LOL

If you pay attention (and I realize that some people are not inclined to do so), you can figure out who is giving out lurve and who isn’t. Sometimes I’ll go back and GA something that I’d missed on my first run-through, so it’s not a perfect system, but it’s enough to give you an idea of who GA’d or GQ’d you, as well as general trends such as people who never give it and those who give a lot.

To answer your question, @BoBo1946, yes, I do notice. I have to say it bugs me a bit. I know it’s not worth anything (and everything else everyone says any time lurve gets discussed), but it’s the difference between putting cream and sugar in at the coffee station and leaving, vs. taking a moment to wipe up a mess that’s there, so it’s more pleasant for everyone.

Not necessary, but it’s nice. It costs you nothing and it’s practically no effort whatsoever. Most importantly, it makes people feel good and appreciated! I don’t understand why people can be so stingy with it. :)

@MissAnthrope that ^^ was me just now.

@janbb – Haha, thanks! Back atcha!

As a fully fledged member of the mile high club, I have to say I couldn’t give a flying fuck! Company policy don’t you know?

Well, lurve, at the very least, does what it was designed for: It’s an approximation of awesomeness.

I will now give lurve to everyone’s answers.

Hey, there’s free lurve in here! ~

I can’t edit my post, so I’m posting an updated version of my previous one.

Well, lurve, at the very least, does what it was designed for: It’s an approximation of awesomeness.

I will now give lurve to everyone’s answers. I’m following this question, so I’ll give lurve to future posters as well.

I suspect a few particular jellies give me a lot of lurve but otherwise I don’t have a clue who is generous and who is stingy. I feel I give out a lot more than I receive but maybe everyone feels like that? So many posts I read but don’t comment on but I give lurve to particular answers that get me thinking.

This may be bad…but…if I visit a question where people have given thoughtful answers and I see that no one has received lurve: I go lurve happy. I lurve everyone in the thread.

It never dawned on me to do a lurve assessment…so this question threw me (I didn’t understand it) until reading all the responses. I got to this point (writing) without giving out any lurve and I asked myself why. I scrolled back up and noticed that this thread (and question) got more lurve per response than probably any other thread I have ever seen. I found two answers that I fundamentally agreed with and clicked. I think I just don’t really notice the lurve as much as I notice the answer itself.

I usually give lurve for insightful answers, I appreciate answers that make me smile (due to humor or cleverness or excellent word choices). I may be lurve stingy and I am curious as to why (it costs me nothing), Upon reflection, I realize that I struggle to give lurve for answers to stupid questions (unless they are witty and give me a clue that they are “tongue in cheek.”) For good questions, I also don’t give lurve to the second, third, fourth, etc. responses that essentially repeat what an earlier user has said. There are times when a jelly has provided the response I was thinking, I give them a click and don’t even bother to answer in the thread (redundant) and move on to the next question.

I accept that there are times, particularly on controversial questions, that I give lurve for the answers that come closest to my position on the topic (whether I answer or not).

I guess I don’t really know if I am lurve stingy or not—I give it as it seems appropriate to the circumstances, but then again, I don’t kiss everyone I meet on the street either…

I give lurve if I’m in a good mood and remember to do it.

I liked Fluther the old way when we didn’t even have to bother with awards and stuff. But my bah humbug approach is known and quite tedious, I’ll admit. I usually just GA everything in sight – we all max out at 100 anyways.

Wow… we lurved these answers to death…loll

@MissAnthrope awwww…. thank you my friend! Touche with “love lurves!”

And, what a great way to start off the New Years…. lots of love for 2011! Hoping that everyone will have a wonderful year that is full of love for their fellowman.

I just give lurve to everyone who either leaves a well written comment, or who makes me laugh. I’m pretty free with my lurve.

Does this make me a lurve slut? :P

you do… i have noticed that…

@WillWorkForChocolate You can be a lurve ho with me, or just a ho.

Oooohhh baby, bring it on! ahem, I’m married, but thank you anyway!

My loss. Hubby has good taste.

Why thank you kind sir! You just made my day!