As you finish with basic sharing of sites, you’ll likely want to move on to the subset of those sites that you want to vote for, or submit to a social news site.
What you’ll run into at some point is that as you’re submitting stories, many of the links you’ve submitted are already present. The way you’ll find this out is as you’re submitting- this can quickly turn into a waste of time. Or, if you’re often the first submitter, by the time you’re visiting other submissions and voting, there’s a pile of new sites to see and vote on.
You can overcome this by setting aside time to look on the popular and upcoming page for stories you’ve already read at other sites and voting for them, when you first log onto the site, before your submissions.
Then, when you’re adding your sites, you’ll have an idea which ones to skip. Of course, if you want to be the first to submit a great story, this can get in the way. But you’ll build a better following by keeping most of your submissions to completely new discoveries rather than brand new submissions from sites everyone already knows about..
When you’re finished voting for sites you already know about, you can then scan the upcoming and popular lists for your favorite category, and vote for the links you didn’t know about. If time pressed, instead of starting the cycle all over again, you can either end on this round of submissions. Or, if the submissions aren’t time sensitive, simply add the links that you enjoy, but aren’t as popular, to your share list for the next day or visit.
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