My Account Got Deleted - Help (16k + Subs)

WolfWraith said:
No, this rule in the ToS has been around for way over a year now (or from what I'm aware of; long before I started YouTube back in July 2013), but it's only this year that YouTube have finally started cracking down on it, they want to start cleaning up YouTube, both a good and bad-ish thing depending on how clean they want it lol. The video in the Tweet was from Feb 2014. I'm assuming the guy he left in charge thought he was helping Pewds out by adding the extra meta data lol
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Are you sure the rule still existed back in Feb of last year? I've searched around a bit and it seems like people were saying no spamming irrelevant tags in the description, but relevant tags were okay. So far everything I've read from around the time the video was released involves specifically tags that have nothing to do with the video.
 
Qazplm said:
Are you sure the rule still existed back in Feb of last year? I've searched around a bit and it seems like people were saying no spamming irrelevant tags in the description, but relevant tags were okay. So far everything I've read from around the time the video was released involves specifically tags that have nothing to do with the video.
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I don't recall there being an actual rule saying you could tag descriptions, I think that was more of a community rule (which I've learned to be very cautious of now days) like people would only report vids if the tags were irrelevant. I do recall last year a lot of people were saying that tags in the description were okay as long as it was relevant, but YouTube's ToS stood as it was, meta data and blocks of keywords in the description and the ToS prohibited it at the time regardless of the blocks of keywords being relevant or not.

"It is a violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service to use misleading metadata and blocks of keywords in your description field.". This is probably where a massive chunk of the confusion was caused in the community, people thought "hey my tags aren't misleading so I can pop them in the description."

This is partially why I did it when I started back then, so many people were saying it was okay to do as long as it was relevant and when I had checked to be sure; that's how I interpreted that part as well, by reading "...misleading meta data and blocks of keywords..." as misleading meta data or misleading blocks of keywords, to me that's what I understood it to mean but it doesn't. It wasn't until around Jan-Feb this year that I went through every single 1 of my old and even newish videos and removed any excess tags. I think YouTube are only now realising the problem is getting out of hand, changing retention to the biggest ranking factor was only the tip of the iceberg back then. What I think they should do is add quick permanent tutorials for any newbies and even old channels who still haven't read the ToS, just to combat this crap a little better and also avoid people crying over it, some still get their channels back with enough luck, some deserve to stay on YouTube, some don't though.
 
WolfWraith said:
I don't recall there being an actual rule saying you could tag descriptions, I think that was more of a community rule (which I've learned to be very cautious of now days) like people would only report vids if the tags were irrelevant. I do recall last year a lot of people were saying that tags in the description were okay as long as it was relevant, but YouTube's ToS stood as it was, meta data and blocks of keywords in the description and the ToS prohibited it at the time regardless of the blocks of keywords being relevant or not.

"It is a violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service to use misleading metadata and blocks of keywords in your description field.". This is probably where a massive chunk of the confusion was caused in the community, people thought "hey my tags aren't misleading so I can pop them in the description."

This is partially why I did it when I started back then, so many people were saying it was okay to do as long as it was relevant and when I had checked to be sure; that's how I interpreted that part as well, by reading "...misleading meta data and blocks of keywords..." as misleading meta data or misleading blocks of keywords, to me that's what I understood it to mean but it doesn't. It wasn't until around Jan-Feb this year that I went through every single 1 of my old and even newish videos and removed any excess tags. I think YouTube are only now realising the problem is getting out of hand, changing retention to the biggest ranking factor was only the tip of the iceberg back then. What I think they should do is add quick permanent tutorials for any newbies and even old channels who still haven't read the ToS, just to combat this crap a little better and also avoid people crying over it, some still get their channels back with enough luck, some deserve to stay on YouTube, some don't though.
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Ahhh okay, so it was a combination of poor wording on Google's part and misinterpretation on everyone else's part.
 
My sympathies, it does suck, because I know there are a lot of other youtubers (maybe not big ones) but medium-sized channels that post tags in their descriptions and don't even get a slap on the wrist. While it's not exactly fair that you get nailed for it and others don't, you did still violate the ToS, so you probably can't make a successful appeal. Best of luck though.
 
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