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Please read posting guidelines

No self links! Read the posting guidelines.

Well, now what?

Self linking is a bannable offense. Cut him some slack, or ban?

Posting Guidelines ¶

So you have a sweet video you'd like to post. That's great. We appreciate all of the additions that help keep VideoSift alive and kicking, but sometimes videos are posted that really shouldn't be on VideoSift. We don't like to delete your videos and *ban you. Honestly, it makes us sad. With that in mind, we've put together a few guidelines to which you must adhere whenever posting a video. Please read these before you make your first post!

1. 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 your post is not a Sponsored Video (the only allowed way to promote your own content) and 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) without the approval of a site administrator.

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

*discard

Other invocations (ban) cannot be called when discarding a post - ignoring nonsensical requests by eric3579.

*discard

Only the original submitter of a post discard it unless the submitter is banned - ignoring discard request by eric3579.

Fluff please discard your post. I'm sorry, but the rules of the site prohibit members from embedding videos from their own YouTube account.

Although slightly cruel, there are enough of us able to downvote to discard it that way.

However, under the circumstances of self linking being a bannable offense, I think having a video downvoted to oblivion is better then a ban.

i did the second downvote because this seems like an honest mistake by someone who did not read the posting guidelines.i agree with sheppard in that a 3 downvote discard is better than a ban.

Heroic.

This video has been discarded due to negative votes by members.