This whole region blocking problem has been a mess for lots of Sifters because, well we can't help being so darned popular in places disliked by video hosts like Comedy Central who've put the kibosh on playback of their videos outside North America.

It's rather difficult and proven undesirable to ask people not to submit from region blocked hosts, so here's our solution (probably stolen from some brilliant Sifters insertion to the suggestion box): There is a new invocation/filter system.

Gold Star members may invoke *blocked on videos that contain an embed they are certain is region blocked, meaning it's intentionally not playable in only select parts of the globe. If you any members dont' want to see any region blocked videos in general listings you can tick the appropriate checkbox in the Filter section of your account preferences.

If the video submitter swaps out the embed, they may invoke *unblocked to remove the Region Blocked flag. Gold Star members may also invoke *unblocked if they are certain the embed works in 100% of the tubunets.