[quote=“Jim_DeLaHunt, post:14, topic:1311”]
I don’t think MusicBrainz can tell the story of Pomplamoose or PostModern Jukebox without a list of their early digitally-distributed hits.[/quote]No worries, if it’s that important to you/ in an artists case, put in those edits!
Other editors who know and care about the specific artists that you’re referring to can then vote on them, and they will know better than someone like me (or anyone else who isn’t a fan). Personally I would say that story can probably be told via the works/ recordings tab, a Wikipedia link or a annotation, but it’s not my place to say what’s best in this case.
But I would vote “no” to a guideline that says to put all youtube videos as a release, because I don’t think that’s a good idea across the board (eg in the case of any of the many artists I’ve edited).
If you are looking for consensus, then that’s it, because you’ve probably noticed that editors don’t add youtube videos as releases.
But of course you could always try to ‘officially’ change that approach, but it might be tricky! I could maybe be convinced 
edit: not that my opinion matters > <
Heck, maybe MB needs some extra functionality to deal with this kind of thing (eg an extra option to display youtube releases, just like we do with bootlegs, so as not to clutter the pages), especially if the line becomes more and more blurred (which it will), but I’ll leave that up to you to noodle out!