# Difference between informing and promoting?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difference-between-informing-and-promoting/648027 "2013-01-22T18:38:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difference-between-informing-and-promoting/648027/47 "2013-01-23T21:37:00Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> 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:

> [@Kickstarter for a documentary on James Randi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kickstarter-for-a-documentary-on-james-randi/648023/1):
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> 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:
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> > [@](#):
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> > 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.
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> 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.  
[/QUOTE]

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.

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