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I was just thinking: this site is the result of splitting off from overcomingbias.com earlier this year. With its new format and functionality, comments and posts get ratings. But all of Eliezer Yudkowsky's posts from before the split don't have ratings comparable to more recent posts, because that would require people to go back through the old posts mod them up.
Some people have done so, but not enough that their ratings accurately compare with more recent top-level posts.
I suggest that everyone take the time to go back to the Eliezer_Yudkowsky top-level posts from before ~February '09, and vote up the ones you remember as being particularly good. If you wish, also mention what you voted on in this thread and why.
In order to avoid nudging anyone toward my picks, I'll wait a while and then say them.
If you need some help jogging your memory, here are some threads where people discussed highlights from when LW was overcomingbias.com: one, two, three.
What's going to happen, regardless of how people rate, is that people will read the articles that get lots of links. People who come directly from google will read what has lots of links, whether internal or external. People who become regulars here will read what gets linked to from contemporary LW articles. Some small number of new regulars will use the ratings to decide what to read, but most of them won't do that until after they read a bunch that were linked recently.