> Hacker News does not directly promote content (aside from prioritizing content based on non-content factors [age, voting, etc.]) This, by many of the same ar

> Hacker News does not directly promote content (aside from prioritizing content based on non-content factors [age, voting, etc.]) This, by many of the same arguments people say about Youtube, would absolutely constitute a recommendation. Even if it's primarily user driven, HN is responsible for the synthesis of all these values which results in content appearing on the front page and tuning which content appears or is downweighted. You can try to play word games but the reality is that should Section 230 go, no one's going to risk the cost of lawsuits to discover what the limits of promoted content / algorithms is.