The platform rules the VALORAE ventures run on, and when each was last read

On 29 September 2026 a rule that two VALORAE blogs quote by name turned out to have been rewritten, and the page it lives on said nothing about it.

YouTube's channel monetisation policies no longer have a section called Inauthentic Content. It became Generic or Repetitive Content, and a new section called Unsatisfying or Off-putting Content appeared beside it.

The page's update log still ends at 15 July 2025.

That is the complication this register exists for. The ventures in this group sell work that lives on other companies' platforms, and those companies can move a rule without telling anyone.

So here is every outside rule page the group leans on, what each governs, and the date it was last read.

Entry 1: YouTube channel monetisation policies

Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392. Read 29 September 2026.

This decides whether a channel can earn in the YouTube Partner Program. It matters to VALORAE Arc, because podcasts ask whether a clips channel can be monetised, and to VALORAE Cast, because editors post campaign clips on their own channels.

Status: changed without a dated notice. Archived copies show the old Inauthentic Content heading on 31 May 2026 and the new headings by 29 July 2026. Reused content, the section that covers footage you did not make, kept its name.

Cast explained the change for clippers in YouTube split its inauthentic content policy in two. Two older posts that use the old name are flagged: Cast's post on demonetisation and Arc's post on monetising a clips channel.

Entry 2: YouTube three-minute Shorts

Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877. Read 29 September 2026.

This covers how Shorts up to three minutes behave, including what happens to a Short with a Content ID claim. From 24 September 2026, new Shorts between one and three minutes long with an active claim are no longer blocked automatically.

Status: unchanged since Cast's post of 28 September 2026 quoted it.

Entry 3: YouTube copyright claims

Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/6013276. Read 29 September 2026.

This says what a claim can do: block a video, monetise it with ads, or track its viewing. It also says claims are separate from strikes.

Status: unchanged in the parts the group quotes.

Entry 4: Whop Content Rewards

Page: docs.whop.com, Content Rewards. Read 29 September 2026.

This is the documentation for the pay-per-view campaign system: a brand sets a rate per 1,000 views, a budget and a minimum payout, and reviews submissions. It is the machinery behind much of the campaign work editors in Cast see, and Cast's posts on payout timing and on checks before submitting a campaign clip quote it.

Status: re-read; the setup steps summarised above are current.

Entry 5: Search Console platform properties

Page: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/17148418. Read 29 September 2026.

This covers the Search Console property type for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X accounts, available to everyone since 29 July 2026. It shows Google Search traffic to posts, not views inside the apps. Arc's post on using it for podcast clips quotes it.

Entry 6: Search Console generative AI performance report

Page: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16984139. Read 29 September 2026.

This defines how impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode are counted. NovaTechRay, the group's alias agency for generative engine optimisation, quotes it in its post on the report, which reached every site on 31 August 2026.

What counts as a rule page

A page goes on this register when a VALORAE post quotes it as the authority for what a platform allows, pays or measures.

That rules out news coverage, however good. A report in a trade publication can be the source for what happened and when. It is never the source for what the rule says, because it is someone else's reading of the rule.

It also rules out third-party guides. Several of the guides that turned up for the YouTube change gave a month for it and a list of what changed. None linked an archived copy or a changelog, so none of them could be checked.

The test is simple. If the platform changed the page tomorrow, would a VALORAE post become wrong? If yes, the page belongs here, with a date beside it.

Pages the group cannot re-read on demand

One rule the group has quoted before is harder to check: Instagram's post on rewarding original creators, on creators.instagram.com. The page renders by script, and a plain fetch returns no text.

Anything quoted from it should carry the date it was last read in a browser, and should not be re-dated until someone reads it again.

That is less convenient. It is also the honest position.

How a silent change gets handled

Four steps, in order.

Read the live page and note the date. Every quote on every VALORAE blog is supposed to carry the date it was read. When one does not, that is the first thing to fix.

Date the change from archives, not rumours. For the YouTube change, the evidence was two Wayback Machine copies, one either side of the rewrite. Third-party guides gave a month. None gave a source, so none was used.

Publish the explanation where the reader is. A clipper reads Cast, so the clipper version went on Cast. The owner of a podcast reads Arc. The group does not publish the same explainer twice.

Flag the older posts by name. The new post names the old one, and the old one gets corrected. The group's correction policy covers how that is marked.

What this register does not promise

It does not promise the group catches every change the day it happens. The YouTube rewrite sat on that page for at least two months before it was noticed here.

It does not replace the platform's own page. If this register and the live page disagree, the live page is right and this one is out of date.

It does not cover every rule the ventures follow. Each platform's full community guidelines, for example, are read when a post needs them, not on a schedule, and they join the register the day a post quotes them.

And it is not legal advice. It is a list of what was read, and when.

The short version

• Six outside pages carry most of what the VALORAE ventures quote.
• All six were re-read on 29 September 2026.
• YouTube's monetisation policies changed without a changelog entry; archives date it between 31 May and 29 July 2026.
• Every quoted rule carries the date it was read.
• Silent changes are dated from archived copies, never from uncited guides.
• The explainer goes on the venture whose reader it affects, and older posts are flagged by name.
• The live platform page always wins.

The rest of the group's ledger is at valoraehq.com.