If Reddit Ran the News.

Yeah, I'm one of those guys who, when confronted with a particularly juicy headline on Reddit, instantly leaps to the comment section before reading the story, and there are a couple of good reasons for this:

(1) The sites in question are way too often cycle-sucking quagmires of ads, auto-play videos, and black-magic javascripting which inevitably causes my browser to cough up its digital guts.

(2) Reddit is superbly blessed with com mentors who either understand the umami-esque nuances of a story or can dissect it with a scalpel-sharp yet darkly cynical wit. Sometimes both. There's also a vast, parasitic army of wise-guys and trolls who have nothing to offer to the conversation but, like warm potato salad at the company picnic, they're easy to pass by.

=Lefty=