Just post the link in a comment to this message and gold stars will discard it for you. Or get a dozen or so people to vote it down to -2. Whatever works faster.

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Yes - just note in a comment that it's no longer working, and somone will be along to discard it. Shouldn't be that many though - we've done a recent clean-up. However those were only YouTube videos. The Google Videos are less likely to go dead though.

Also, to improve things, I would recommend a list of common tags.

"music video" might take up too many of those precious few characters allowed.
tv ad, ad, advert, commercial is there a better one?
cartoon, animation, stop-motion, flash, etc?
also, maybe a "classic" tag for the older been-around-the-internet stuff
music vs. music video
appropriate use of cool, crazy, weird, awesome, etc.
declaration that all crotch shot videos be tagged with AFV
nsfw also to be included in tag?
tv shows tagged as such
etc.

@dag: Although a cadre of gold-star users are standing by to find/remove b0rked videos, wouldn't it make more sense to incorporate automated video verification in siftbot? For instance, removed youtube videos return an HTTP 500 instead of the normal HTTP 303 w/ Location header. Why not just perform a HEAD request to the movie param value (http://www.youtube.com/v/4WZ8GHCNSOA)?

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We have a script to do just that hamfist. It was first invoked just about a week ago to get rid of all the broken stuff.

We haven't decided how often to run it, but might be a weekly thing. And there has been some call to have siftbot give an email warning to the submitter first so that they have a chance to update the video with a working one, so we might write that part first before scheduling it regularly.

As of now, it only works with YouTube, but thats seems to be the majority of dead stuff anyway.

Dag: can't siftbot check the url in the embed tag so that two /v/JAD8SDHJ5 submissions, the or google (=-34321434123) new one gets thrown out, or include that in the submission check page.

@joedirt: I imagine it can, though such validation would be better implemented during the submission process. I would further speculate that dupe content appearing in multiple, uniquely identified videos is the largest hurdle to automatically preventing dupes from entering the queue.

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You're absolutely right hamfist - that's the problem.

Most of the dupes are actually a different source file, so, hard to track automatically-