I usually click on the link to the next page that I want to go visit (or I cast my votes), then change screens (WindowMaker on Red Hat 8), returning a few minutes later .. so the delay while the server tallies my occasional votes is quite tolerable.

Another strategy is to right click on a link, open in a new tab (using Galeon browser, but also available in Mozilla) and while that's working, look at the original tab, read the article and the replies, vote, then flip over to the new tab which by then has finished. Once there, I delete the original tab.

This type of strategy is preferable to opening lots of pages all at once -- that puts a big, fat load on the servers all at once, for a series of pages that will be read over the next ten or fifteen minutes.

Please, be kind to the Monastery servers. :)

--t. alex
Life is short: get busy!

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