What I would do is search reddit for the article URL, if there have not been any submitted yet, then I would submit it to the appropriate subreddit and hope a d

What I would do is search reddit for the article URL, if there have not been any submitted yet, then I would submit it to the appropriate subreddit and hope a discussion forms. Unfortunately, with the way reddit works a lot of times this fails for larger subreddits, because your submission gets burried, but it works just fine with smaller subreddits.