From the Posting guidelines

http://www.videosift.com/faq-en.php#posting_guidelines
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Please do not self link.

While you may see this site as a great way to promote a project you are working on or promoting, it would be bad for our content if everyone just put up videos of them and their friends doing random things. If you are associated with a project you think is truly amazing and must be shared, please contact us. We'll take a look at it and if we also think it's great too, we'll post it for you. If you attempt to post it yourself, your video and account will be deleted. Hey, it's harsh, but it's harsh love.

What exactly consitutes a self link?

If any of the following is true about a particular video you are considering submitting, it is a self link, with NO exceptions for any member:

* The video is associated with your account on the video host (i.e., you uploaded it to YouTube, Google Video, etc.).
* You played any role, no matter how large or small, in any aspect of the production of the video.
* You are in any way responsible for or involved in marketing, promoting, or any other manner of proliferating the video.
* You could receive any form of compensation (monetary or otherwise) as a result of the submission or subsequent views.
* You are somehow represented in the content of the video whether photographically, artistically, audibly, or metaphorically.

If you self link, regardless of your logic or explanation, you are violating the posting guidelines. There are no exceptions for any reason, whatsoever.

Finally, submitting a video that is considered spam falls within our definition of a self-link. If you create an account solely to post a video for whatever reason, but do not actually participate in VideoSift in any other way before or after, you may be considered a spammer/self-promoter and your account is subject to banning.

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