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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The most important question of the holiday season: Is there a limit to how much fat you can gain from one binge? /r/askscience has the answer. (/r/askscience)
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/r/gaming chronicles the ongoing feud between a childish social media marketer and some of the biggest gaming publications on the Web, including IGN, G4, Kotaku, and Penny Arcade. There’s not enough space to get into it here, but thankfully CoolAbedFilms (who else?) has collected all the relevant links. (/r/gaming)
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A GoDaddy employee takes to Reddit to give an insider perspective on how the recent SOPA controversy and Reddit boycott has affected the company. It turns out the company hasn’t really been hurt that much, he says. “Keep in mind that reddit users and twitter users are a small, vocal minority in the internet.” Blasphemy! (/r/IAmA)
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New research on anesthesia’s effect on the brain may shed light on what one /r/science reader calls the “greatest mystery in the universe”: consciousness. (/r/science)
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Ever wonder what it’s like to have all your fingers chopped off by a table saw? If so, today’s your lucky day. Dulljack isn’t just doing an epic AMA, he’s provided pictures, all of which are quite NSFW and probably NSFL, depending on your threshold for real-life gore. (/r/IAmA)
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In /r/TheoryOfReddit, redditor mystupidpostaccount chronicles the increasing prevalence of two logical fallacies used on Reddit. ” I think they’re discourse cancer,” the redditor writes. “If you mapped the downfall of a forum relative to how frequently these two devices appear you could probably get a pretty strong correlation going.” (/r/TheoryOfReddit)