I'm pretty sure time and time again dang has confirmed they don't promote any post coming from a YC-affiliated company, and in case of Elixir, its just one dev at one YC company. A tenuous connection.
I explained what is probably going on in a sibling comment. Less of a conspiracy, and more about a handful of people seeing the hyped language du jour in the title and upvoting it in a matter of minutes.
> I'm pretty sure time and time again dang has confirmed they don't promote any post coming from a YC-affiliated company
Probably the right thing to do ethically if you want to run a forum but at the same time it would be bad business.
I'm not saying that this occurred here and I don't really care either but I wouldn't exactly trust a company on their word on something they can benefit financially from.
I explained what is probably going on in a sibling comment. Less of a conspiracy, and more about a handful of people seeing the hyped language du jour in the title and upvoting it in a matter of minutes.