good point. as so often in live, there are pro and cons

At the moment, SN seems to be more active during US daytime hours, so a post in the morning hours of the EU tends to drop down the home page by the time SN hits its most active. 

But this also means that EU morning hours have less competition for real estate.

Scoresby

interesting. i posted something today and it was pretty high on the frontpage and now slowly goes down. what i didn't think about was the timing of me posting the link. since i am from switzerland and i posted the link in my morning, people from the us might never see it on the frontpage. if it would be important to me how that link ranks (it does not in this case), i would need to take the timing into account. also i am just assuming that the us has the bigger audience than the eu, but maybe that assumption is even wrong...