I put the sentence about Eliezer getting the karma he deserves into our post, and I mostly meant it as a joke. It's true that the OB posts have gotten less karma because they were posted before the introduction of the karma system, but I don't think anyone actually feels sorry for Eliezer for not getting that karma or worries about the injustice of it.

The genuine advantage that I see to getting more votes on the old posts is to make it clearer which sequence posts people liked, which is useful for anyone who wants to pick out the best posts from the sequences. I also don't think it would be good for the new posts to get lots of upvotes based on the quality of the original post that they link to (or reproduce).