Comments for "Suggestion: Filter setting for Region-blocking videos?" Talk at VideoSift.com

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:46:11 -0700

I really, really, really like this idea. Especially if we gave people the option to filter blocked posts out.

Would it be *region, or *block or *regionblock or *fuckoffcomedycentral?

By ant

ant (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:44:25 -0700

*onlyforAmericans
*onlyforUSA

By ant

ant (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:44:32 -0700

*quality too.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:44:32 -0700

ant cannot award a quality point for this Sift Talk post because ant does not have enough Power Points - ignoring quality request by ant. (You can always purchase more Power Points.)

By doogle

doogle (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/doogle) — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:01:05 -0700

can I still get a *quality invocation?

By siftbot

siftbot (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:01:05 -0700

Invocations (quality) cannot be called by doogle because doogle is not privileged - sorry.

By kronosposeidon

kronosposeidon (http://kronosposeidon.videosift.com) — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:19:18 -0700

Only one problem with this: You can't always tell if a video is region-blocked ahead of time. Many sifters (including me) have posted videos from YouTube, only to learn later from some non-American sifters that they're region-blocked.

And *region wouldn't even tell what region is blocked. Sometimes it's only Canada that gets blocked, and other times it's the whole world outside the US.

It's still not a bad idea, but it needs a little fine-tuning, IMHO.

By doogle

doogle (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/doogle) — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:04:39 -0700

yeah - I was thinking about that.

I was thinking that if users specified what country they were from, then the invocation would be specific for that country.

I believe the blocking has thus far been not against specific countries, but against non-US countries...can we get verification on this?

If so, then the *region could apply, yet users will need to specify in their user profile (unless Videosift wants to go down the route of backtracking IP addresses...erg...) if they are in the US or not and if they want region-blocked videos to show up or not.

Maybe it can be as simple as a CSS-blocking check mark in the navigation. Check this to hide Region-blocking videos. I would love to see this for NSFW videos...

By Eklek

Eklek (http://eklek.videosift.com) — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:06:18 -0700

I'm still undecided about this idea, as I think regionblocking in general is unfair, I mean country borders on the Internet??? That's not something VS stands for I think..it means only a part of the VS-community can see/comment on the video in question.

Sifters could be stimulated to knowingly post regionblocked videos.
And they could become lazy in not spending time to find a non-regionblocked version of the video.
And as kp says one generally is not aware that a video is regionblocked, especially when posting while online in the US (or other countries, this indeed complicates the invocation).

But on the other hand its good to know a video is regionblocked.

By arsenault185

arsenault185 (http://arsenault185.videosift.com) — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:10:46 -0700

I'll give it to you. *quality.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:10:47 -0700

Awarding doogle with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by arsenault185.

By doogle

doogle (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/doogle) — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:29:13 -0700

woot woot!

But seriously, I do believe those on VS have given up on the region blocking show down. Region-blocking videos are making to the top of the most popular lists (i.e.: Colbert's dance-off with Rain). Us Canadians can't watch it. I know it's not an option to have a Canada-specific VS (as there is with some country in Europe, but a "Hide" feature would help.

I for one have given up downvoting region-blocked videos. But damn I would love to *tag'em.

By jimnms

jimnms (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/jimnms) — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:44:24 -0700

I have run into some videos that are region blocked against the US. The BBC's official videos on Youtube are an example.

By doogle

doogle (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/doogle) — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:39:18 -0700

Damn you jimnms. Damn you.

By notarobot

notarobot (http://engineering.videosift.com/member/notarobot) — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:16:41 -0700

I really like this idea.