Leading online video site YouTube has updated its community guidelines, and among the "common sense" restrictions are rules against "drug abuse" and "underage drinking and smoking," both of which are commonly featured in the thousands of videos of kids smoking psychotropic Salvia Divinorum. Also against the rules? "Don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views." In other words, quit it with the gratuitous tits in your preview stills, sxephil. The best part is where YouTube effectively calls its users higher-order illiterates: "We know most of you video heads are not necessarily interested in reading a novel, but this is an essential read for anyone with a YouTube account." Why not just produce a community guidelines video? That seems easier.

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