Everyday there seem to be a couple posts about Google/Gmail being down for domains/that country/whatever. Unless these posts link to an article explaining hows, whys or anything relevant, I think these posts are utterly uninteresting. To keep polite.

Yeah, I don't get why "global service isn't working for me at the moment" justifies unqualified "X is down" posts on HN.

What if there's no blog post?

I could write a blog post saying exactly what I said here.

Key phrase: "explaining hows, whys or anything relevant".

In the future it might be useful to use http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ to figure out how wide spread the issue is.