You Tube Playlists and Self Linking
Hi
Whats the rule with playlists? If I want to post a video and all its parts - say I post 'Part 1' of a documentary or piece ... can I make a playlist in my YouTube account linking all the video parts and embed it, or would this be considered filthy and evil and ban worthy self linking?
Bare in mind the playlist is only made for videosift - thoughts and suggestions? I see a lots of long videos that have links to next part in the description and just want to have it all as 1 embed
Thanks
Whats the rule with playlists? If I want to post a video and all its parts - say I post 'Part 1' of a documentary or piece ... can I make a playlist in my YouTube account linking all the video parts and embed it, or would this be considered filthy and evil and ban worthy self linking?
Bare in mind the playlist is only made for videosift - thoughts and suggestions? I see a lots of long videos that have links to next part in the description and just want to have it all as 1 embed

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So long as none of the underlying vids are yours, it's perfectly acceptable. Encouraged even.
Better to have all vids in a series in one post rather than clogging the queue. That and if the set is more than 3 or 6, you'd fill your slots too quickly.
yep
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Self-Linking-Policy-For-Youtube-Playlists
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Is-this-kosher
*ban
First they make their own playlists, then before you know it they're nibbling on our brains.
Well I'm drawing a line in the sand, people. Either you're with me, or you're with a stinky undead cat.
We are through the looking glass.
Zonbie cannot be banned because star accounts are immune to banination - ignoring ban request by kronosposeidon.
Undead cat-wtf are ya saying there mate, that a player made on you tube from other users video content, of however many parts one chooses to include, is somehow against the stated posting guidelines? These are here already, we have lurked around for quite a while. This seems perfectly kosher, in fact, more efficient as well for posting a 10-part documentary or some such.
Playlists are completely ok. It's much better to have one video with all parts than multiple sifts some of which don't even get out of PQ.
I'd love to see more playlists on the sift. I'd love to see a trend of longform abstract eye candy montages (Eklek Dreamtrip stuff, industrial footage, nature, vintage smut, ect.) to use as video ambiance at parties.
^with auto play feature
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