Would it be a good idea to make it optional to keep track of your lurve?

There are those among us who notice that the lurve system seems to turn them into avaricious attention addicts who end up caring more about their popularity stats than about the content of their posts, and who think they would be better people if they would not always be tempted to maximise the marvel math.
I’ve mentioned that worry before, and others have told me I’m not the only one. So yeah.
So I think it would be a nice feature to offer the option not to keep your score; so that your posts are still upvotable and everything, and everyone can still show their appreciation when you say something particularly clever, but you’re not notified of it outside the thread and the lot isn’t added to a grand total of how awesome everyone has been thinking you are.

What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea?

Apologies if I’m reposting an old idea, but I refuse to even try the search frustration tool any more.