Youtube Stupidities

[daniel]

What the hell is the matter with youtube? I would have let go but it's been bothering enough now. I remember a time when youtube accepted videos longer than 10 minutes. My biggest mistake was not signing up during that time period. Most of you probably know that people who registered after a certain point are not allowed to have +10-minute videos posted up. It seriously pisses me off because I work quite some time to get the video made. Then what? "Rejected: Too long" So I wind up editing the video to split it into sections, which make it look like sh*t and even affect some cool content. What makes it worse is seeing new videos uploaded most days that are over 10 minutes.

The site offers you to give them suggestions to improve your stay at youtube. Surprisingly, one of the optoins is "allow videos over 10 minutes long to be uploaded". Well, this is what is given upon giving that feature suggestion:

Thanks for your email. We appreciate your taking the time to make a suggestion. While we don't reply to individual suggestions, we do review them and will keep them in mind for the future.

Wow. Perhaps several questions could have been answered if it worked otherwise.

[A.G.]

Well, I think 10 minutes is pleanty. People posting things like movies or TV show episodes probably shouldn't be doing that. And as far as making videos... I really never watching anything that's 10 minutes long. Say a Metal Gear tribute video... 10 minutes? No thanks.

But I get your frustration though.

[daniel]

Yeah, I mostly do video walkthroughs of small games or some speedruns or no-hit runs. Takes lots of time to perfect into video.

[A.G.]

got any on Metal Gear? Would love to see you post them here!

[daniel]

I actually did them on Metal Gear 1 and 2. I then did one on the PC Metal Gear Solid. But, of course, youtube being jerk it is, rejected them. Since I made them quite a while back and found no use for them after I learned about the upload problem, I took them out (didn't see much use anyway. As well, I hoped youtube would change the policy sometime or another). By the way, those videos were speedruns.

The most offensive part about it is that one of my videos was 10:15 and it was accepted, but another one was 10:42 and it got rejected for length.

[TheBrotherOfLight]

Can't you just register as a director or something like that?

[Black Snake]

You can get a customized tag that goes with your name that says Director, Guru, or Musician after you create your account.

It doesn't change the length limit of your video upload.

[daniel]

It used to be like that if you change your account status to "director". Now, it has no effect on the video length.