Community guidelines
Also known as: platform rules, content policy
The rules a platform applies to what gets uploaded, which for action sports footage lands mainly on injury, danger and trespass.
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What it means
Every platform publishes a set of rules and enforces a slightly different set. The written policy is the starting point and the automated enforcement is what anybody actually meets. The two are not the same document.
Action footage touches several categories at once. A Wipeout with visible injury, dangerous activity, trespass and occasionally a changing clip, and none of them become obvious until something has already been removed.
Enforcement is mostly automatic. A classifier reviews an upload in moments, and an appeal reaches a person much later if it reaches one at all, which makes the first decision effectively the only one.
How it works in practice
Crashes are the recurring question. A heavy slam is allowed on most platforms and an injury with visible blood frequently is not, which is worth knowing before a Crash compilation goes up.
Context changes the outcome. The same footage framed as sport passes where footage framed as a stunt to copy does not, and a title does real work here.
Keeping the original is the practical defence. A removal is easier to answer when the uncut clip still exists and shows what actually happened rather than what a classifier decided it saw.
What to watch out for
A removal can take the account rather than the video. Repeated findings accumulate, and the second or third one is where Shadowban behaviour and reach limits and other quiet penalties begin to appear.
Rules differ by country. A clip acceptable in one place is restricted in another, and the platform decides that without telling anybody which rule applied or where it applied.
Music is a separate system entirely. A Copyright strike comes from rights holders rather than from these rules, and the two get confused in almost every discussion about takedowns that anybody has.
How RawClip handles it
Nothing in the analysis judges what is permitted, so a crash or a near miss is treated as action like anything else. Deciding what goes out publicly stays with the person who publishes it, and the source footage remains available either way.