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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A Canadian-developed HIV vaccine has been approved for human trials. /r/science puts the news into context. (/r/science)
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In /r/TrueReddit, a link to the Vice travel film on North Korea leads to a discussion of the best documentaries about the hermit kingdom, many of which are hosted for free on YouTube. (/r/TrueReddit)
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When you get sick in space, does your immune system react differently? (/r/askscience has the discussion. (/r/askscience)
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Reddit admins have released an important new feature, the moderator log. Most ordinary redditors will never notice this, but moderators have been asking for it for a very long time. It’s an important tool for helping moderators understand who does the heavy lifting in their subreddits, and who does very little (and who messes things up). /r/occupywallstreet and /r/SOPA, among others, are pushing for a public version of the new feature, which would help add important transparency for Reddit’s often misunderstood volunteer workforce. (r/modnews)
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With the holidays fast approaching, /r/askscience is taking a break from its status as a default subreddit. The section requires proactive moderation to maintain its high quality, and moderators fear the overwhelming number of new subscribers will be too much to handle in the coming weeks. “I think the goal for most of us would be to go back to default at some point, but hopefully with some new moderator tools at our disposal to keep quality high,” moderator jjberg2 says. (r/TrueReddit).
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Redditor khthon translates a news story about new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s childhood friend—a 26-year-old Portuguese man named João Micaelo who went to school with Kim in Switzerland. (/r/DepthHub)
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Redditors in /r/explainlikeimfive want to make a children’s book based on the best responses in the subreddit. It sounds like moderators are working on one, which they plan to self-publish.
