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Another proposal: Award at most one vote on import per post.

If we're importing a post that had a net-positive score at Mi Yodeya, indicating that the community there considered it valuable, it would seem wrong for it to show up here with a zero score. So give it one upvote "from the community."

Beyond the simple signal from the sign of the Mi Yodeya score that this post has value, the signal sent by the *scale* of the score at Mi Yodeya is more confounded. It could come from degree of publicity (including happening to be featured on the network's sidebar) as much as from the community's judgement of its value. So, there's much less value in importing that scale here. Add to that the aforementioned problems with mixing Mi Yodeya votes with local votes.

One place where we might want to pay attention to the relative scores of posts is in the import of multiple answers to the same question. There, to capture Mi Yodeya's collective judgement about the relative value of the answers, it might make sense to give an import vote only to the highest-scoring answer, or perhaps the top Nth percentile of answers.