Reddit Digest: January 16, 2012

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 than90,000 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.

• Redditors shared their unfavorable run-ins with celebrities. Surprise: those who have met Justin Bieber in real life like him no more than those who have not.

• Colorado congressman Jared Pollis became the latest politician to tell Reddit he opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in an AMA session. hello_moto pointed out why everyone on Reddit should know Pollis: “All you had to do was say you submitted ‘The Internet is for Porn’ into the congressional record and we all would have known immediately who you were.”

• Speaking of SOPA, rockNme2349 reminded us that “Copyright infringement is NOT theft and is NOT stealing, it is copyright infringement.” (/r/politics)

• Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian is going to be interviewed about SOPA on Al Jazeera’s the Stream on Wednesday. You’re invited to submit a question to be answered on air. (/r/IAmA)

• Otherwise, r/IAmA was dominated by apostates: not_your_normal_girl successfully deprogrammed herself after living 27 years in a cult (really!). ceb2011 says he grew up in the secretive Opus Dei Catholic sect but recently let it go.  iwasonceatreehouse67 is a liberal guy who recently lost his religion, living a secret life by attending a conservative Christian college.

• ehullz in r/WTF claims to have found the “worst tattoo artist ever.” In r/pics, though, mrharlo‘s friend’s ink is pretty bad.

• /r/AskReddit tackled how to deal with an assassin. Yes, someone gave a full-page response. (/r/AskReddit)

• A joke in /r/circlejerk was that if a particular post got 10,000 comments, the subreddit would be exempt from Reddit’s Jan. 18 blackout. So one redditor commented 974 times. (/r/circlejerk)