In order for us to help out our fellow Sifters when finding that a video is no longer available, instead of immediately calling *discard to remove it, a new option is available: the *dead invocation.



This Gold Star invocation will flag a published video (only published videos) as having a dead "link" to the content host (e.g., YouTube, Google Video, etc.). If a dead video has been fixed or is simply no longer broken for some reason, the *undead Gold Star invocation will return it to normal status. However, if undead is not invoked within 48 hours, the video will be discarded.



On a side note, you will notice two new icons beside some videos. One denotes that a video has been discarded





and the other denotes that a video has been flagged dead






Thanks to ren for these nice new icons! As usual, if there are any problems, please announce them in this post.