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.
- An atheist Ron Paul supporter teaches a masterclass in trolling. Step one, make up a fake quote from Paul about abortion being wrong in the eyes of God. Step two, post in r/atheism. Then just watch the confusion flow in. “I made this quote up, and you all (well, not all) blindly upvoted it without even looking into it,” he says. (r/atheism)
- Remember the Reddit SuperPAC? One user in its dedicated subreddit created a huge Cereal Guy comic. His point is that the SuperPAC should be used in a propaganda campaign, rebranding the entertainment industry as being so zealous in enforcing copyright law that it’s harmful to children. (r/rPAC)
- Cute and for a good cause: “We found out our wedding photographer takes photos of shelter dogs so they are more likely to get adopted. Never been happier with a business decision.” (r/Pics)
- Here’s how bass-ackwards the music industry and copyright law can be. Yelawolf, who’s signed with Universal, rapped over a song by the unsigned group After the Smoke. Afterwards, Universal issued a successful order to YouTube to take down After the Smoke’s original song. (r/Music)
- What’s your biggest Reddit pet peeve? Is it seeing every Reddit pet peeve laid out together? (r/AskReddit)