Prediction: this headline will be renamed "US invades Venezuela" very soon.
It's a reference to "the official term used by the Russian government to describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine" [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_military_operation
I'll say I'm doubtful. I think we'll bomb from afar and hope to pot Maduro.
I always remember that episode as I see headlines like that.
Like Reagan. But they’ll find some guy, I don’t know, Bob South, who will take the fall.
Some things get downweighted in accordance with the guidelines and community expectations but everything can still be found.
We don’t “remove” anything, and what we “like” doesn’t come into it; our job is to keep discussions healthy and curious and maintain the trust of the community.
Stories that are primarily about political controversy will generally get downweighted by:
- community flags
- flamewar penalties
- software penalties that are applied by default to publications and topics that are primarily focused on daily politics controversy.
But even with these penalties the stories can easily be found on /active, and everything that’s ever posted can be found on /newest (with ‘showdead’ turned on).
When a story contains “significant new information” we turn off these penalties to ensure it gets exposure on the front page, which we’ve done here and which we’ve done for every major breaking story over the many years that this approach has been in place.
Or maybe not :(