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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Will the new moderation log cut down on subreddit drama? Follow the discussion in (where else?)/r/SubredditDrama. (/r/SubredditDrama)
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The plaintive cry of the 41-year-old man: “Why the hell am I getting more ear hair? What evolutionary trick is this?” Turns out, evolution isn’t really involved and ear hair is kind of a mystery, as /r/askscience readers explain. (/r/askscience)
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Yesterday’s top story on reddit—for much of the day—targeted web-hosting company GoDaddy and its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act. That led to calls for boycott. Now Cheezburger’s Ben Huh has thrown himself into the fray: Unless GoDaddy changes its policies, he’s taking his more than 1,000 domains elsewhere. (/r/politics)
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There’s drama in /r/Conservative as that subreddit’s moderator decides to ban all Ron Paul threads. (/r/Conservative)
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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a new type of solar cell that can simply be painted on to a surface. “I actually worked on this at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany,” slantzjr writes, beginning an impromptu AMA. “The problem is it is commercially unstable right now. The goal isn’t even to paint it, its to roll it on in layers.” (/r/science)
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“The largest natural bridge on earth was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, until it was observed on Google maps.” It’s called the Fairy Bridge and can be found in Guangxi, China. (/r/todayilearned)
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Reddit continues to do good things for people in need of bone marrow donations. After yesterday’s front page post in /r/IAmA), more than 650 people signed up to donate their marrow at the National Bone Marrow Center. (/r/IAmA)
