I appreciate that, Bigun, but let me clarify because I don't want to mislead you. It's been the consensus opinion here that the Bad Gateway message was caused by server congestion on GOTD's end. However, if you're only getting it when you use IE, you might be on to something. That may be a valuable clue, though that's the first I remember hearing that. Not to beat a dead horse too much, but, again, GOTD has stayed quiet on this problem.
I, of course, was referring to the original topic of the thread, comments not being posted on the comments page. In that case, my suspicion that it's technical on their end was based on a number of factors. 1. It occurred to some of the biggest backers of the project, like Whiterabbit, who even, I believe, had trouble accessing the new page at one time. 2. Most insisted that their comments were not critical. Many even said they were positive. 3. A very sharp decrease in the number of comments and often very few in the first 2 or 3 hours of the giveaway, when the posting's usually the heaviest. That couldn't possibly look good to developers and it's steadily been going up, which hints to me that GOTD is working on it. 4. Reports of occasional problems even before the redesign, which I suspect were attributable to the spam filter, which is actually not static but a "live" detection service provided by bbPress.
Of course, it all may be attributable to Bubby's recent suspicion that a moderator was throwing away a lot of comments because they just couldn't be bothered to take the time to read them. I suspect that's been fixed, but there's been so many reports since the redesign that I'm still convinced it's a number of factors and many of them are technical.
Mainly, though, as you and so many have said, there has always been ton of crap that snuck through - Bubby once joked that you could post "banana, banana, banana" and it would get through - that there just didn't seem to be any pattern that would point toward censorship. I know you didn't say that, either. I'm just saying that the evidence to me points to just another example that GOTD is working on it, but is afraid to admit they're having a problem. Just like with the "unfixable" email notification problem that, nevertheless, got fixed.
Anyway, I'm glad you had some success with downloading.
