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Ooh, interesting. I guess they're noticing a spike in Referrer: reddit.com traffic?

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This is a predefined piece of text that can be inserted by moderators at their discretion. It's used for popular questions regardless of the actual referrer—although Reddit probably makes up a huge part for popular posts.