Dear Eugene O'Loughlin,
Thank you for submitting your video appeal to YouTube.
After further review of the content, we've determined that your video does violate our Community Guidelines and have upheld our original decision. We appreciate your understanding.
Yours sincerely,
– The YouTube Team
This was the message I got today after appealing the removal of my How To... Download and Insert a YouTube Video into PowerPoint video. So that's it - my video violated Community Guidelines. I have read read these, which are broken down into the following categories:
- Nudity or sexual content
- Harmful or dangerous content
- Hateful content
- Violent or graphic content
- Harassment and cyber-bullying
- Spam, misleading metadata and scams
- Threats
- Impersonation
- Child safety
- Additional policies
I can 100% state that the video was none of the first nine items above. But what is this "Additional policies" about? This is broken down into:
- Vulgar language
- Inactive accounts policy
- Encouraging Terms of Service violations
- Age requirements on Google products
Neither the first two, or the last one apply - but I feel now that the "Encouraging Terms of Service violations" one is the one that got me. Towards the end of the video, after I had downloaded a video and shown it working in PowerPoint I state "...another good thing about this [method] is ads will not be displayed as well...".
This is what the policy states:
Encouraging Terms of Service violations
If you post content that encourages other users to violate our Terms of Service, the content may be removed, your account may be penalised and in some cases your account may be terminated.
It has to be this by process of elimination. Now I know!
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