Difference between informing and promoting?

[Marley23]

@Inner_Stickler

Are you arguing against the word Kickstarter or threads soliciting for money?

I’m not arguing against either. Posters can start threads about Kickstarter campaigns or ask for money - they just have to ask us for permission first. I already mentioned this upthread, but ultrafilter’s thread was called “Kickstarter for a documentary on James Randi.” And here’s the OP:

@ultrafilter

I know that Randi has a few fans here, so this might be of interest. There’s a Kickstarter campaign going on right now for a documentary titled
An Honest Liar: The Amazing Randi Story. Here’s the description from the site:

An Honest Liar profiles the colorful life of famed magician turned professional skeptic James “The Amazing” Randi as he embarks on a series of public crusades to expose America’s psychics, faith healers and con artists with religious fervor. But you never know whether to trust a master deceiver - and there’s more to Randi’s life than meets the eye.

This looks cool enough that I threw in for a download copy.

The title of the movie was linked to the Kickstarter site.

[QUOTE=Inner Stickler]
Because ultrafilter’s thread was clearly about the actual movie.
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I’m not seeing it. The title of the thread had Kickstarter in it, he linked to the Kickstarter page, and his description of the movie - the only bit that was “about the actual movie” - was taken from the Kickstarter site. And I’d like to emphasize here that I’m not suggesting ultrafilter was spamming or anything and we probably haven’t made it clear how we were going to handle threads like this. But yes, this was a thread about the funding of the movie, and it would have been better to ask us before posting it.