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Everything on Herrd is submitted and voted on by people like you. Join now to share, promote and discuss what's important to you. If you like a story, click on the "herrd it" button beside the story. If you dislike the story bury it!
About Herrd
Herrd is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Herrd surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Herrd — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
How do we do this? Everything on Herrd is submitted by our community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Herrd what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Herrds, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.
And it doesn’t stop there. Because Herrd is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. We’re here to promote that conversation and provide tools for our community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about. By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on Herrd, you’ll always find something interesting and unique. We’re committed to giving every piece of content on the web an equal shot at being the next big thing.
How Herrd Works
Herrd is democratizing digital media. As a user, you participate in determining all site content by discovering, selecting, sharing, and discussing the news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you.
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Discover
Submit your favorites. Find an article, video, or podcast online and submit it to Herrd.com. Your submission will immediately appear in “Upcoming Stories,” where other members can find it and, if they like it, Herrd it.
Become popular. Once a submission has earned a critical mass of Herrds, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top 10”. If a submission doesn't receive enough Herrds within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section.
Discover news on Herrd. Visit the “Upcoming” section to discover recently added news. Track submissions as they come in with the Live tool.
Of course, you can always check the topic homepages to see what's newly popular. And you can subscribe to RSS feeds of particular topics, popular/upcoming sections, individual users, and the search terms of your choice.
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Select
Herrd. Participate in the collaborative editorial process by Herrding the stuff that you like best. As you Herrd, you contribute to the popularity of any given item. You also build a history of Herrding that you or your friends can view.
Bury. If you find stories with bad links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s how we get the spam out of the system and let the good stuff rise to the top.
The system only works when users actively participate on a large scale, so make sure to do your part and Herrd and Bury content that matters to you!
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Share
Build a network. Invite your friends or find them on Herrd and add them to your friends list. Then your friends can track what you’re Herrding and you can see what they Herrd as well, enabling you to collectively find news together.
Email. Send your friends (Herrders or non-Herrders) the stories that you Herrd.
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Discuss
Comment. Share your opinions by commenting on stories, videos, and podcasts as well as Herrding and Burying comments by other users.
