I have been unable to access these websites.

Do you know what happened to Gawker.com  or Wonkette.com

This is since Friday.

Unbelievable!!!

The researcher answered your question truthfully and you chose to give
it a very poor rating.

You said:

" I was looking for a posting from them that said their
server is down, or something simliar "

Why would you want that if the server wasn't down and the sites were fine?

Sheesh, no one here is a mindreader.

My 2 cents,

Steph53

why is there not some sort of ombudsman for this type of happenstance?
as an innocent bystander, i tried to find something wrong with
tutuzdad answer, trying to put myself in kraigster's position, but i
cannot. the question as posed seemed to be answered quite nicely.....
i think the ga's take great pride in answering these questions,
especially the $2.00 lazy questions and just because the asker does
not agree with the end results should not end in a low grade. but what
do i know?

Relax people.  I gave it an average grade.  Why should I have given it
five stars if it didn't answer the question?  He said there is nothing
wrong with it, as he could access the site.  I didn't need a computer
lesson.  Do you think I would have posed the question if I could have
accessed the site?  Obviously not.

If there was a message board posting somewhere that said the site was
down, that's what I wanted to hear from the answer fella -- that he
found the reason that the site was unavailable..... or if he got an
email from Wonkette and she said "he's crazy, we're fine".  But to
type in a URL and have no problems involved minimal work.  I managed
to do some research after that and found out that there WAS a problem.

I have no anger towards the answer fella.  I said that in my original
post.  I paid my money, I got an ok answer and I gave a reasonable
rating.  I do not throw around five stars just for any reason -- if
some serious research was done, I'm happy to rate things highly and
tip too.

I told answer fella that if he could get them to revise the rating I'd
be willing to give him another star.  But c'mon people, relax.  If
Google will re-open this, he can have another star.  But this is what
I thought was fair.

Sorry if the community feels differently.