YouTube Videos: Posting Guidelines **Read before Posting**

YouTube has become a popular – and growing – source for Bigfoot clips, aptly dubbed “Tubesquash”. This has its positive sides, and negative sides.

The positive side is that people can upload their Bigfoot clips anonymously because they don’t want to be ridiculed by doing so publicly. It is a great source for clips we wouldn’t have seen otherwise, or at least not without great effort.

The bad side is that the quality of YouTube videos is horrible. And many of the clips are recorded with cellphones so by the time we get to see them, we can’t see anything, so to speak. And hoaxers have Carte Blanche, of course.

We get at least one YouTube Bigfoot a week, and more than often these threads are called “Another Youtube Bigfoot”, “Yet Another YouTube Bigfoot” and so on. Which makes it a bit difficult to refer back to these videos after a month or two – because there are no usable key words in these titles or even the rest of the threads. Thus a posting convention would be in order. When posting a YouTube Bigfoot video (or even other material of sorts) use sighting specific detail in the title. Date and location would be a great start, for example:
“YouTube Bigfoot video: 1/2/2012 – London, England”

If neither of these two details is available the video clip looses credibility and usability. You can still be a bit creative like giving the sighting a name. We all know the “Patterson-Gimlin Footage”, but very few people know the date and location the film was made. Thus if a Bigfoot video was posted by Peter Pan, you can always call it the “Peter Pan Bigfoot Footage”. There is no reason to call it “Another blurry Bigfoot behind a tree video”. If we can use these guidelines, referring back to threads after a couple of months, would be much easier.


[edit on 15-7-2007 by Gemwolf]

Very good idea Gemwolf, perhaps this should be implemented in the alien UFO forum as well.I've seen so many orb vids I can't keep them straight.

I can't get any YouTube videos to actually work in my posts, I have tried every combination of vid # I can see. verything from the last backslah on to just what comes after the equals signnone of them work. I just posta HTML link to the YouTube video currently. But this is great information for posting any video I would think as I assume all would start to be linked back to and we could have the same problems on the other services.

Cheers

I have run across this many times when trying to refer back to a vid that has been posted.

As I suggested ealier on another thread, having an originating date would even be a plus.

(ps. is the 'PeterPan Bigfoot Video' on YouTube right now?)

since i am new to this ats thing could someone please tell me what i have to do to post a link with like the pics and articles. your help is most appreciated

You can embed videos, you can show .jpgs and standard graphic files, and you can post links to articles.

To show a picture, get an account at a free image site like photobucket, then paste in the image tagged link.

To embed videos, click the google or youtube buttons.

To link to articles paste the URL from your location bar.

Hope this helps!

I'm tryin to post a youtube video (i rarely do and it seems there is an error with the pre-made tags developed by ats webmasters

example:

1) Correct link coming from youtube:
h.t.t.p://3w.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDEEkL9YMU

2) Expected value in between [yvid] value [*yvid] tags :
AuDEEkL9YMU

RESULT:
Nothing >>> error <<< no video watchable
And when i click on the link i get: "The url contained a malformed video id." returned by youtube's script


I noticed the following "possible" error syntax:

h.t.t.p://3w.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDEEkL9YMU\

I believe the \ should be removed

Just my 2 cents

I wasn't able to post videos the way i wanted yet i mean to have the video player embeded within my post(s)

Apparently some people can, i guess they found a way.If someone could teach me the art of posting video(s) and to have it embeded....

of course i tried the embed thing proposed by youtube such as:

width="425" height="350"> "h.t.t.p://3w.youtube.com/v/AuDEEkL9YMU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

But that doesn't work (here)




















[edit on 29-8-2007 by themaster1]

Themaster1, let's try it...

*** Tried YouTube Video here ***

You're quite right. Not working... I'll alert the powers that be.

[edit on 30-8-2007 by Gemwolf]

Testing-

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