Is the statement below an insignificant amateurish hypothesis, or does it point to a real problem?

Encouraging users to paste screenshots instead of describing an issue precisely, and to help helpers with sample files - is a DDOS attack in disguise.

The site obviously has technichal problems for some time now. As a new example you may take the occasionally shown message:

Due to extreme load, this is temporarily being shown to everyone as a logged out user would see it.