Same here :(

Hi there,

Thank you for your email.

This account was found in Violation of TOU #4 Section H.
http://www.youtube.com/t/terms

"You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, YouTube grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. YouTube reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Service (e.g., comments, email) for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Service with respect to their Content."

Regards,

account appeals
The YouTube Team

Thank you for the reply That's exactly the same email I received. I'm not sure. Does a suspended account progress to termination surely it can't just remain suspended forever. We need to find out this out as myself and others are worried about any remaining accounts we have.

Hey TTB People!

This is a followup to my previous post.

(For the record my approx stats at the time of "suspension": 4,400 subscribers, 63 original music/videos, 100k views)

I have now, in total, "appealed" to have my main chnl reinstated no less than FIVE (5) times! Every single response has been exactly the same (see below).

I have now turned my attention back to the party whom is directly responsible to us (their paying clients) for this disaster, Tube Toolbox. I have emailed them to let them know that I have been blown off 5 times by using their "recommended approach". YouTube/google is obviously NOT taking my grievance and my responses seriously and I still have no access to any of my accounts that I worked so damn hard to build for a little more than a year. I think that we should ALL tell TTB to make a MUCH BIGGER effort to speak to YT/google on our behalf! I think ALL of you should contact TTB and tell them to step it up and go represent their clients (you) who have been defamed and defiled for the use of their software!!! I encourage ALL of you to come out of the woodwork and let Tube Toolbox know how the use of their software has had a completely negative impact on your YouTube channels. In the meantime ALL of our status' within the YouTube community is literally being slandered, through no fault of our own! I apologize for the rant, but I really do feel it is completely appropriate, at this time ...

If you, like myself, have only received this same message (below) as a response to multiple appeals, it may actually be a good sign! Why? Because it means that YouTube/google does NOT have an issue with your content!!! We may still have a chance - They are just pissed off that TTB software was caught breaking their regulations and this "activity" was then tracked back to our chnls/accts!!!

below is the same response i have received 5 times for every appeal i have sent for my main chnl:

Hi there,

Thank you for your email.

This account was found in Violation of TOU #4 Section H.
http://www.youtube.com/t/terms

"You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without
limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the
Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube
servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in
the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, YouTube grants the operators of public
search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site
for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating
publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or
archives of such materials. YouTube reserves the right to revoke these
exceptions either generally or in specific cases. You agree not to collect
or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account
names, from the Service, nor to use the communication systems provided by
the Service (e.g., comments, email) for any commercial solicitation
purposes. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of
the Service with respect to their Content."

Regards,

account appeals
The YouTube Team

There has been one additional response that they sent me as follows [this response really made me angry check it]:

subject: YouTube: Did we help answer your question?

Dear YouTube User,

Thank you for contacting us about your query 104413****.

We are eager to hear about your YouTube experience. Please take a minute
to answer this short survey about your satisfaction with YouTube support:

(I also suggest that we ALL respond to YT/google with a complaint with the link they send us for "Support Ratings" to let them know that we are NOT satisfied with the way they are presently handling our appeals process)

THE GOOGLE SUPPORT LINK WILL BE HERE - CLICK IT IN YOUR EMAIL AND COMPLAIN -NICELY OF COURSE LoL!!!

We value your thoughts.

The YouTube Support Team

* Find out more about GoogleRatings.com at
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=157303

P. S. Please don't respond to this email -- we won't receive it!

'til next UPD8

TrackMaker~

My account has been reactivated.

Hallelujah!!!

@crazyslugproductions: could you please tell us what exactly you have done so that they reinstated your account? Thank you!

got the same messege as the rest of you guys, violation of tos bla bla bla, no warnings, no penalties, just suspend, happy for ya crazyslug, but youtube seems to be automating their replies, you would think such a rich company would have some better customer support

Guys, all my NEW drone accounts were just banned AGAIN tonight! This is very very worrisome. Has this happened to anyone else?

I have also just had my new main account banned, as I have not been given access back to my old accounts I started a new main. It had 250 subscribers since starting it 9 days ago and once again, it too is now banned.

Could I please add: thegenerallygoodgame to the list of channels to be re-instated.

It's strange how non-emotional I am getting this time. It seems I was ready for the inevitable and I believe this may be the last time I use tube toolbox again if there is not some sort of guarantee in place.

All my new drone accounts were banned again last night. I don't know what is going on and it looks like Tube Toolbox hasn't been fixed or youtube is conducting another mass ban. All the default time settings were not changed. Do not use Tube Toolbox with your main account...

Its frustrating I understand :( But you have to realize that TTB is at the mercy of Youtube, not the other way around. They can't just fly to a Youtube HQ demanding a seat in front of higher people, or hire a private investigator to do shady work.
They need to play nice and they are utilizing the contacts they have. You don't burn bridges in business.
Youtube could easily change their policies to completely throw TTB to the curb. So they need to approach this the best way they can. I'm sure you can see how hard it is to work with Youtube, with all of their automation systems and extremely limited contact routes.