What if lurve was used for something?
So I had a cool idea. Instead of making lurve pointless, wouldn’t it be cool if we had characters on fluther, kind of like neo pets, and we used lurve to get different kind of things or abilities for our characters. I dunno can you guys think of any fun ways to use lurve?
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lurve is suppose to be intangible…just like loving people. I don’t think anyone should be able to cash in lurve for anything. Why can’t we just lurve for lurve’s sake!?
I have sugested that maybe we could cash it or something lol
dan you are really trying too hard for lurve points
It would ruin the site. Seriously.
The possibility of tangible rewards leads to gaming. While the mods would try to keep it down, people will find a way to cheat if they they they’ll get something from it. People would be less free flowing with the lurve. It would just be a big mess.
commeee on lets think outside the box. I know it will ruin it but if you could use it for something what would you wanna use it for
If I had to use it for something…I’d use it for one of these.
Making lurve should result in burbies.
Lurve is lurve. I like things as they are.
My god Grisson! It seems at the very moment I decided to give you some lurve for your reply somebody else did as well, at the very same time!
IT’S A LURVE TRIANGLE!
@Jamspoon LOL Wonder what the urfspring will look like?
it could be like Chuck E Cheese…10,000 lurve gets you a piece of crap toy
No No No!
But if I had to, I’d buy the t-shirt, too.
How about one of these?
Probably take a lot of lurve though, maybe 50,000?
If I could do stuff with my lurve like buy burritos or beer with it that would be great. Once Im broke I would QA like a madman.
I would lurve to buy a burrito and some beer, but I doubt I could afford much…and Im allergic to neo pets. so, I say leave it like it is
I wish I had a nickel for every time this question or a variation of it was asked. I could retire in style!!
just be careful with your lurve or you could get hurpes.
would that be a “computer virus”?
DTDs – Digitally Transmitted Diseases
Lurve is used for something!
@EmpressPixie – no kidding!
Lurve is great – exactly how it is, now.
Hey, what if we could donate lurve, say in 500 point blocks, to selected charities? When we selected a charity and made the “donation”, the Fluther Masters would donate a certain amount of cash to that charity.
Then, the goal of us Flutherites would be to have the least lurve next to our names.
@steelmarket I think that idea a lot, but instead of the Fluther Masters, all participating Fluther-ers could put in $1 or $5 or something. I just don’t see any way to actually do it, logistically speaking.
I still say if you make it worth something, it becomes a competition, and it incentivises lurve gaming. I’ve seen it happen elsewhere and it caused the outright ruin of what was otherwise a good thing. I know from experience it’s a bad, bad, awful idea that is completely at odds with the spirit in which lurve is given.
@EmpressPixie – yeah, I was being a bit sarky…. @dalepetrie is correct, there is no way to do this without it rapidly devolving into a greater competition than it already is.
@steelmarket At the other place, it was something we discussed sometimes as a “I wish we could do this…” idea. I’m also very aware that it was part of what ruined that website.
(Wait, greater competition than it already is??? Are people really out there lurve-whoring?)
ok, i change my mind. i think i have enough now, im ready for a burrito
It would be cool if the lurve could say, “Hello and Goodbye” (in various languages)
Yeah!
How about for every lurve you get, Fluther donates a few cents to a major charity or something? That sounds like a good incentive to want to have lurve. And if people give out lurve just for the hell of it, it would still be for a good cause.
@BoyWonder – I doubt the mods make anywhere near a few cents per lurve given out collectively.
Since we’re not paying anything to support the site when we use it, and since what advertising there is (Amazon and t-shirts) is very unobtrusive, I think that expecting the people that make Fluther.com possible to put out anything more than they are already doing is presumtuous.
If individuals want to donate to a charity for each lurve they get, that sounds like a great idea, but they should probably do so silently. Otherwise it sounds a bit like lurve-mongering.
How about a simple exchange rate, one that will not tax our hosts:
1000 lurve = 1 attaboy
10 attaboys = 1 gold star
10 gold stars = a toast in your name at the coffee machine in Fluther HQ
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