We covered a bit of our philosophy and ideas in the Strategic Overview post and the launch post.
The primary reason to mess with the past totals soon is that with the recent switch towards weighted karma, we introduced quite a bit of karma inflation, and we might not want to heavily overrepresent this specific period in the calculations that determine your vote-weight.
In the long-run I expect we will try various ways of using the vote-data we have to create more reliable and useful reputation systems than what we have right now (e.g. something like Eigenkarma), and for that we will probably change karma totals in some way or another (or make the idea of karma totals meaningless, who knows).
We covered a bit of our philosophy and ideas in the Strategic Overview post and the launch post.
The primary reason to mess with the past totals soon is that with the recent switch towards weighted karma, we introduced quite a bit of karma inflation, and we might not want to heavily overrepresent this specific period in the calculations that determine your vote-weight.
In the long-run I expect we will try various ways of using the vote-data we have to create more reliable and useful reputation systems than what we have right now (e.g. something like Eigenkarma), and for that we will probably change karma totals in some way or another (or make the idea of karma totals meaningless, who knows).