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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Kim Jong Il has died. Redditors discuss the implications. And then tackle the really important question: With Bin Laden, Kim, and Ghaddafi all dead in one year, who are the world’s three top villains now? (/r/AskReddit)
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How many comments have been posted on Reddit since it was founded in 2006? According to one calculation in /r/TheoryOfReddit, nearly 200 million. That’s based on roughly 40 million posts. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Redditors resurrect a 2009 article from HackerNews creator Paul Graham: “The Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it.” The /r/TrueReddit discussion is really interesting—not just for redditors, but for anyone concerned about how a social news site can degrade as its popularity grows. (/r/TrueReddit)
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How is your brain transforming this sentence into thoughts? How does reading work in the brain? The scientists of /r/askscience explain, as well as they can. (/r/askscience)
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Looks like Neil DeGrasse Tyson wasn’t joking. He really does want to do monthly AMAs. In the December edition of IAmA Tyson, he discusses his favorite scientific paper (the one that proves we’re all star dust) and postulates on what the next great invention will be. (/r/IAmA)
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Here’s a handy tutorial on how to navigate IAmA comments from the guys who make the Reddit Enhancement Suite. (/r/Enhancement)
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Notice changes to /r/pics formatting? Mods are playing around with the CSS to steer users into creating more original, quality posts. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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This AMA from an E.M.T. is very much worth reading, though the content of his stories are unsurprisingly gruesome. (/r/IAmA)
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Here is a really cool photograph of a “derelict mausoleum” (/r/itookapicture)
