> You make a post on Hacker News titled “Show HN: I made this cool thing called Luminexel, check it out!”

So, place an ad in other words.

It’s not an ad if you’re not paying someone to forcibly show it to other people.

	▲	magicalhippo 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So if I put up posters in my neighborhood for my PC fixing service, it's not considered ads, but if I pay someone else to put the same posters up, they're suddenly ads?
	▲	jonfw 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		what if I payed a content marketing expert to craft my blog post and title in such a way that drew attention? Would that be paying for