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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“What made you NOPE the hardest in your life?” littlemissmovie asks, demonstrating that “nope” has fully mutated into verb form. (Definition: to be equally repulsed and terrified of something.) The ghost of E.B. White just cried a little. (/r/AskReddit)
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Redditor Mind_Virus, who’s had his fair share of kerfuffles with moderators, has launched a new network of subreddits where anything goes. It’s an experiment in light-touch moderation. Will it work? (/r/AnythingGoesNews)
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You know that song you hear all the time but have no idea what it’s called? Redditors made a list of all the common songs you hear in movies and TV shows. (/r/AskReddit)
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Rumors spread that a pregnant woman pepper-sprayed at Occupy Seattle has miscarried. To their credit, the readers of /r/occupywallstreet urge caution until corroborating evidence is available. (/r/occupywallstreet)
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Reddit, you have a repost problem. But don’t fear! KennyLog-in is here to catalog every single repost he can find. Sounds like a special form of torture, but he seems to enjoy it. ((/r/AskReddit))
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Ever heard of the Millennium Prize Problems? They’re the hardest problems in mathematics—hard enough that even understanding what they’re about is hard for the lay person. Thankfully flabbergasted1 is here to explain them in terms a high schooler could understand. (/r/explainlikeimfive)
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Why do people procrastinate? “It turns out that human motivation is heavily influenced by expectations of how imminent the reward is perceived to be,” redditor sneering writes, explaining that playing Skyrim right now means a whole lot more to your brain than studying things like, you know, science. (/r/askscience)