Maybe I didn't write it clearly enough, but you missed my point. Sharing/social buttons are nowadays used for submitting stories. And if resubmitting old stori

Maybe I didn't write it clearly enough, but you missed my point. Sharing/social buttons are nowadays used for submitting stories. And if resubmitting old stories by visitors is not happening often (+), then it's pretty stupid. Why? If I'm already submitting my posts myself to social sites, these buttons should point to already created there entries. Even by only assuming that votes are the main concern in such sites, it's easy to tell that having "splitted" entries instead of the main single one is purely wrong. But crucial benefit here is social consolidation, so your visitors can easily check reddit or HN comments, if there are any. And I believe my idea is really good, yet I don't understand why people go with mostly useless submitting buttons requiring additional work of the precious visitors. I also don't believe I could be the first one with such simple yet efficient solution. (+) It's kind of the question here, I don't know whether there are any statistics about it.