Heads up! Your feedback helped us identify 3 areas of our Community Guidelines where we can clarify policies & strengthen enforcement:
Custom thumbs
External links
Pranks & challenges
Read how enforcement will ramp up over the next few months → https://goo.gl/9FtUjc
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Reminder
: Custom thumbnail images must follow our Community Guidelines. A thumbnail that egregiously violates policies (e.g. pornography, graphic violence) will result in thumbnail removal.
In the future, this will also result in a strike.
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Reminder
: External sites you link to from YouTube must follow our Community Guidelines. Links to sites that egregiously violate policies (eg. malware, spam) will result in link removal.
In the future, this will also result in a strike.
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Reminder
: Our policies prohibit content encouraging violent or dangerous activities that are likely to result in serious harm.
We’ve updated external guidelines to clarify what this means for dangerous challenges and pranks.
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Replying to @TeamYouTube
Oh so no more failarmy, I guess I'll have to find a new place to watch videos on the internet
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Replying to @MyNameIsErik32
That's not what this means! Specifically, we’ve updated our external guidelines to make it clear that challenges like the Tide pod challenge or the Fire challenge, that can cause death and/or have caused death in some instances, have no place on YouTube.
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What about the ice bucket challenge? I've seen plenty of people getting into bad accidents that could've killed them while doing that one in a creative way. Your heavy-handed banning for the most ill-defined things is starting to get really fvcked up...
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