It smells like a selflink, but is it?

Selflink. *ban.

>> ^demon_ix:
Doesn't seem necessary, IMO.
Regardless, I am for removing the ability to discard other people's videos (kill is more than enough. discard should be something the video owner can do) and for revamping dupeof to require at least a second invocation, sort of like how the ban invocation works, but even without that I feel the system works fine the way it is.


Discard does have its place when we have spam/selflinks. Although, we could just have that happen automatically; when 2x users have invoked ban successfully, the post is discarded by siftbot.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'doomsday, december 21, Mayan, 2012' to 'banned, redacted, selflink' - edited by Ornthoron

selflinking? *ban

You can build your own playlist and post it if you wish. That's not considered selflinking.

12 months of selflinking already, time for a *ban

She didn't upload the vid to youtube, she doesn't appear in the video, she didn't produce it and she won't get any compensation for submitting it. It's not a selflink:

"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) without the approval of a site administrator."

*return

Good clip, but if you are really the girls aunt kikiguri, unfortunately posting the clip would be considered a selflink, and therefore in violation of the VideoSift posting guidelines

*discuss

It may be a selflink, but his username here is loganshero and over at Y/T it's tylermacniven. I don't see mention of "loganshero" anywhere in this vid or on his profile page, however, so I can't say it's a selflink for sure.

Youtube account is: tylermacniven http://www.youtube.com/user/tylermacniven

One of his videos is titled: BJ and Tyler's Amazing Race application video (using his name-Tyler).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4j3ppJz9yk
The video features the same two guys as in this video
This means he made this video as well (since he's in it).

Here is another one of his youtube videos "Oh-Ba-Ma" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhB2QhND-nU
in which he is in it. Yup same guys!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Please give proof how this is a selflink.

Please give proof how this is a selflink.

Double standards. this is obviously a selflink.

With this community, everyone calls everything a violation of the rules. But, to be honest, there was a discussion on here that wouldn't be too hard to find where it was said that creating your own playlists of other people's videos is fine and not a selflink.

If you need help, just send me the links and I'll put them in a playlist for you on my YT account.

In reply to this comment by dannym3141:
Thanks!

And i won't be breaking any rules by making my own playlist and then posting that playlist? No self linkage etc.?

And if i need a hand doing that you're in my crosshairs, so i hope you haven't written checks that you can't cash

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I'm not sure if there's a hard and fast rule, but typically if they're YouTube videos, you could make a playlist of all four and embed them as a playlist video which would play all four. If you don't have a YT account, let me know and I'll do it for you and send you the embed page.

Sometimes I have embedded the first part and added the other vids to the comments section, which I don't think you can do because you're not a star. Other times I have posted all parts separately, but typically you don't get the votes needed, because people get funny about that. I'd got with the playlist if you can.

BF

In reply to this comment by dannym3141:
blank can i ask you a question please?

I'm looking to post a series of videos (4 of them). What's the normal thing to do for those? Post the first one and link the rest in the comment? Post all 4? Embed a few?

I'd like to know before i spam the videos and need to take them down again

Edit: It's like a documentary type thing. 4 videos.

*discard selflink, re http://www.videosift.com/video/Ivana-Santilli