How about a sticky on what sites are down

[mortalman]

down or shutdown

[DefX]

We generally allow threads about trackers being down and others confirming it. The problem is that there will be 20 consecutive posts saying the same thing. e.g. "Yes its down " . Simply put, it breeds spam so no on the sticky.

Most sites go back up again within 24 hrs anyway after a period of downtime.