LW has a lot of old content, with old votes on it. This change will introduce a big disparity between the power of votes in the (pre-LW2) past and votes in the (post-LW2) future. I don’t know that this is a problem, but it’s a bit weird. (Consequence 1: when interpreting the score on a post or comment, you’ll need to think about whether it’s mostly been voted on recently or in the past. Consequence 2: when something has been voted on both recently and in the past, past voters’ votes will have less influence on its score. Consequence 3: there will be a temptation once everything is integrated to go back to old material and retract-and-redo one’s votes; people who choose to do this will in effect have more voting power—as regards that old material—than people who don’t, and this may have quite a substantial effect on the karma scores of the people whose posts and comments those votes are made on.)
LW has a lot of old content, with old votes on it. This change will introduce a big disparity between the power of votes in the (pre-LW2) past and votes in the (post-LW2) future. I don’t know that this is a problem, but it’s a bit weird. (Consequence 1: when interpreting the score on a post or comment, you’ll need to think about whether it’s mostly been voted on recently or in the past. Consequence 2: when something has been voted on both recently and in the past, past voters’ votes will have less influence on its score. Consequence 3: there will be a temptation once everything is integrated to go back to old material and retract-and-redo one’s votes; people who choose to do this will in effect have more voting power—as regards that old material—than people who don’t, and this may have quite a substantial effect on the karma scores of the people whose posts and comments those votes are made on.)