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Wondering when Reddit’s Best of 2011 awards will be announced? It’s today. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Should you eat curry to stave off Alzheimer’s? That probably won’t help you, /r/askscience says. But there is a new drug being streamlined for medical trials that just might cure the degenerative disease. (/r/askscience)
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The moderators of /r/gaming deserve some praise after nipping a witch hunt in the bud. Redditors in the subreddit had begun raising pitchforks over quotes from Bioware’s head writer—quotes that had been cut down and taken out of context, then mashed into a nasty, hateful image. /r/gaming mods deleted the thread. “It comes down to this,” moderator ohemeffgee writes. “/r/gaming is not the place to make some random person’s life fucking miserable.” Hopefully that has helped the most recent target of /r/gaming‘s rage avoid the kind of nasty harassment common in these situations. (/r/gaming)
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Most reposts are annoying; this one is creepy: Redditor Sergio_Flores reposts a photograph of spoonydip, and then assumes his identity. When the truth emerges, users at /r/pics are not amused. (/r/SubredditDrama)
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Here’s a pretty picture of meltwater running through a glacier. (/r/itookapicture)
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One Scottish man’s hatred for Braveheart spawns 10,000 comments on movies that “piss you off.” (/r/AskReddit)
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4chan is apparently trolling /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu. The troll even spread to /r/bestof, but at least there users figure out the truth behind the post. “I’m not sure how this counts as a troll,” orange_jooze writes. “It’s like trying to poison the city’s water supply, but instead spilling it in the sewers.” (/r/bestof)
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Redditors at /r/politics just really can’t get enough of congressional hopeful Rob Zerban. His posts continue to hit that section’s front page. Is he the first Reddit candidate? Will that even help him? (/r/politics)
