This kind of dense sentence is extremely tiring to read:

    > I wanted to know whether the knife subreddits I read, and scrape for New 
    Knife Day, show any sign of that. Not a hunch about one suspicious comment, 
    but something I could count and someone else could recount.

Everyone should adopt this rule: if the author didn't take the time to write it, you shouldn't take the time to read it.