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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Social media marketers are apparently contacting redditors whose posts hit the front page. They’re looking for “consultants.” Free tip to social media marketers: One way to make the front page? Get exposed for trying to corrupt the front page. (/r/offbeat)
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A question to strike terror in the hearts of bored office workers everywhere: “Could Reddit be destroyed?” You mean, the reddits are not eternal? (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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A study reveals the gender gap in mathematics is cultural and not biological. /r/science rips apart the methodology. (/r/science)
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CERN announced yesterday that the European research center is getting closer to proving the existence of the Higgs Boson particle (also known as the “God particle”). What is this particle anyway, and why is it so important? /r/askscience has multiple explainers, including an entire thread dedicated to the subject and a particularly edifying series of comments by B_for_Bandana. (/r/askscience)
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In /r/IAmA, learn all you ever wanted to know about being an elementary school janitor. “I always giggle like a school girl when I find out we’re getting new mops,” lexiphanic008 writes. (/r/IAmA)
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/r/subredditoftheday profiles /r/RandomActsOfChristmas, a place “for families to help each other this holiday.” (r/subredditoftheday)
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A redditor’s grandfather watches him playing Skyrim. Gramps then paints a fantasy landscape based off of what he saw. (/r/skyrim)
