With 30 million unique visitors and close to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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“All hands on deck” as /r/politics chronicles the Occupy Wall Street evictions.
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/r/gaming takes Telltale games to task for damaging a guy’s jeep and never reimbursing him; Telltale’s CTO responds.
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/r/AskScience mods release data that shows how much their traffic has surged since the subreddit was made a default last month.
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Meanwhile, /r/AskScience’s unique brand of crowd-sourced science education continues its onward march. The subreddit’s mods made some announcements yesterday, including a Twitter and Facebook push. “Your family, your friends, your colleagues, your followers, your subscribers, and yes, even your secret stalkers, all of them should get the chance to get in touch with the real-life scientists,” they observe.
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Redditors in their early 20s post their salaries. How depressing. Give these kids a raise!
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gwax says he implanted magnets in his hands. Cool story. Though you’d think the /r/skeptic readers would be—uh—a little more skeptical.
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Skilled readers put words in a “visual dictionary” allowing them to skim through texts quickly. /r/science has the discussion.
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TIL blue whale songs get deeper every year. It’s a mystery! Not really, as one redditor points out, they have to compete with noise pollution from tanker ships.
