20 years later, soldiers reconnect on Reddit

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• Can subreddits’ senses of community be salvaged? (r/TheoryOfReddit)
   
• The permissions of Reddit moderators has been altered. (r/MetaHub)
   
• Patrick Fischler, of Californication and Mad Men fame, hosts an AMA. (r/IAMA)
   
• Two former soldiers stationed in Korea together in 1992 reconnect on r/IAmA! (r/defaultgems)
   
• The subject of an r/cringepics submission shows up in the thread. (r/bestof)
   
• On a related note, how do creepy-looking guys try not to creep out everyone they come across on a daily basis? (r/AskMen)
   
• How do the ladies of Reddit prefer to be asked out? (r/AskWomen)
   
• Can woodpeckers get brain damage? (r/AskScience)
   
• r/Historians reveals any occasions on which major events in world history were affected by poor translators who were helping various heads of state communicate. (r/AskHistorians)

Picture of the day: The sun rises through trees on the morning after a forest fire. (r/pics)

Hottest subreddit: r/castles (2 days)