FatBrosProductions (October 27, 2007 at 2:33 am)

Can you PLEASE Give back my burger king sandwich?Watch "Mortal Hand Fight 01" please

SullenSky (September 8, 2007 at 10:29 pm)

Spamming unnecessary stuff such as promotions of personal videos that are unrelated to the topic of the discussion. Basically, spam.

alsarmady (July 13, 2007 at 6:56 am)

hi , its good to see you , really!, we need that kind of Philosophy ,asking.thanks.

GMKrullen (June 11, 2007 at 5:49 pm)

Blasphemy of the great almighty YouTube is a no no here. Though blasphemy of anything else is all good.:D

cronopio1979 (April 18, 2007 at 4:02 pm)

Every community in the *real* world has each taboo. For example, christian people don't talk about pornography, and chinese girls don't show her feet. But here on Youtube there are people for every part of the world, it's a global community and that make people to look at things that are a taboo in their own *real* communities. Maybe sites like this one will make us realize someday that we are not different as we normally think. And taboos will exist only as definition in sociology books...

MaKMelman (March 29, 2007 at 4:04 am)

Thank you. I think you're right. flagging and breaking terms of service must definitely be signs that a taboo has been committed.

MaKMelman (March 29, 2007 at 4:00 am)

Ah. I think I understand your concern. But I'm engaging in participant observation. I particularly believe that you cannot understand a person until you have participated in their world. Walked with him/her, etc. I also want to get youtubers direct opinions of themselves, (the insider's perspective) so that I don't fall into the misunderstanding that often comes from having only an outsider's perspective of events. That's why I like to pose direct questions-- to hear the insider's perspective.

MaKMelman (March 29, 2007 at 3:51 am)

Absolutely. I've got a couple video topics in mind, and a little editing experience. I hope I can engage people better in the future.

MaKMelman (March 29, 2007 at 3:47 am)

Thank you for your comment. Are you an Anth or sociology major? I'd really appreciate more comments in the future.Also, I understand what you mean about criteria for social interactions. I'll be posting more vlogs very soon, so people can get to know me a little better. Two types of vlogs: serious ones about Digital Ethnography topics, and the fun ones where i just talk about my life, thoughts, etc. Because I've found that I really love vlogging.

paperphoenix (March 16, 2007 at 4:05 am)

In my opinion, you haven't committed a taboo here unless one of your videos gets deleted. ;) If your videos get flagged, at least SOMEONE thought so, but still not necessarily, because it's still accessible and a lot of those things can be labeled as such based on opinions... Otherwise, I think pretty much everything is fair game here until an account or a video gets deleted, and that's usually because of Terms of Service being broken.

hyleslie (March 14, 2007 at 10:34 pm)

Among other things, that means ++ quality sound, editing,&⇑ imaginative ways of asking questions.... ;-)

hyleslie (March 14, 2007 at 10:32 pm)

Your question --what's taboo in YouTubeLand-- is good (anth-wise). But YouTubeLand has implicit criteria -- like any society -- for social interactions. It's a visually and aurally rich place, it's more than web-cams&typepads. You're still at the stage of lingistic&cultural infancy (no raz, all participant observers begin this way). You'll get more meaningful data on YouTubian Taboos when you show YouTubians that you are culturally and linguistically competent in YouTubeYak.