"You know HN is a social site, right?"

You know we're talking about social networks, right?

How do you define social networks, then? This site here has user accounts, posts/comments, upvotes, and a profile description feature. It's 100% a communication platform/network. What's missing in your eyes?

"What's missing in your eyes?"

The network component.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network

Sure, but like... if you want people to not use social networks, why are you here? Why are you posting here?

hackernews is more of a news feed with a comment section than a social network

"hackernews is more of a news feed with a comment section than a social network"

The "more of... than" makes this sound less absolute.

HN is not a social network. It is (probably) a public forum used to aggregate news and foster conversation.