Can you self-promote on r/elixir?

Allowed, with limits. Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out. Where: Normal post linking your own Elixir-related blog post, video or project, at a reasonable frequency Read 2026-09-24 from the community's own rules.

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Can you promote on r/elixir?

Allowed, with limits Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out.

AI content must be labeled Its rules allow AI-assisted content only when it is labeled as such. Other communities' AI rules.

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its rules on Reddit

Subreddit for the Elixir programming language, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Learn more at https://elixir-lang.org.

Where to post: Normal post linking your own Elixir-related blog post, video or project, at a reasonable frequency

What it requires: Keep the number of your own links within a given time frame reasonable; no low-effort link rehashes (blog spam); no job postings; mark AI-generated content; English only

What its rules say about promotion

Excessive self-promotion
Posting external content (blog posts, videos, etc) is fine, but try to be reasonable about how many links you post within a given time frame.

What its rules say about AI and bots

No AI-generated content, unless explicitly marked as such.
Using ChatGPT or other similar tools to write posts or comments is not permitted here, unless you explicitly say that the content is generated by such an AI.

All 8 rules of r/elixir

Ad hominem
Even in the face of differing opinions, insults are never the appropriate response. On a related note, do not try to bait others into losing their temper.
Excessive self-promotion
Posting external content (blog posts, videos, etc) is fine, but try to be reasonable about how many links you post within a given time frame.
Blog spam
If an article is merely rehashing a source article or is nothing more than a low effort set of links, it is not welcome here.
Off-topic content
All posts must have some relevance to the Elixir language or its community. If a post does not directly reference Elixir, it probably does not belong here.
Low effort posts
Posts should not consist purely of memes, image macros, etc. A bit of these is fine in comments, but we may choose to moderate excessive amounts of low-effort comments that get in the way of actual discussion.
Job postings
Job postings are not allowed here; there are websites better suited for those. See the links in the subreddit menu, for example.
Non-English content
This is an international forum, so English is the only language allowed here. This is also in part so that moderators can actually moderate the content posted here.
No AI-generated content, unless explicitly marked as such.
Using ChatGPT or other similar tools to write posts or comments is not permitted here, unless you explicitly say that the content is generated by such an AI.

What the written rules don't show

Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.

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