I middle click stuff that looks interesting, hit next, continue scrolling pages like that at high speed until I loop back around to the beginning, then nuke.

Basically? I try to be selective.
I'm recieving WAY more submissions than I have time to look at.

That seems like a strage method to me.

I go at it pretty straightforward. Click the ones that look boring and delete them. Then, click the ones that look the most interesting and mark them as I go. The ones that I want to look at later, say i'm stewing on a comment or i don't have much more time than to glance, i'll just leave them there until I get more time to really look at it.

The boring ones I don't even spend a pageview on. I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON.

I dunno...I like to force myself to pick one thing that I really like and look at that. I mean, it's not like I've got many artists on watch that are producing professional quality grade art pieces.

A couple of months ago, I went over 1000 submissions behind the present. I could not let this stand (I think I was involved in a commission and couldn't devote any time to browsing). By aggressively pruning artcards, photos and fursuits, I whittled down the number of entries to where it's currently 172. Many of the pics I didn't delete outright I did at least look at.

I tend to delay faving some works in order to cluster them together. This most often happens with adult pics that happen to appeal to my sense of aesthetics (doesn't make up a majority of my fave gallery, surprisingly)--they get faved in a group, then other G-rated faves are placed atop them so they're pushed off the userpage. I do look at past entries in my faves every so often.

It takes me a long while to decide whether to watch anyone nowadays because of what I described in the first paragraph. Most of the time I'll fave a piece and every so often use that entry to tour the person's gallery to see if they're trending in a direction that will make me want to watch. Some artists are on a "mental watch", in which I haven't added them to my list, but I remember their names well enough to visit their user pages every so often and eventually decide whether or not to watch them.

I very rarely unwatch artists...one was for making porn boring, another was due to a failed art trade (I did my half, she didn't). The last ones I did were for folks who had basically abandoned their accounts (no uploads or comments in more than a year or two). The next one at risk of being unwatched is also for making porn boring...her characters (even commissions) look like porn stars with too much eyeliner/eyeshadow, artwork posted as gigantic .PNG files that are a pain in the d*ck to view. I rarely click on her uploads anymore for those reasons.

1: I watch mainly people whose artwork I WANT to see.
2: I even then only LOOK at maybe 3 or so?
3: Toss the rest

Yeah, it's sad.