I don't believe these glitches are just random or by any chance real "glitches".
I doubt their code is that broken, my suspicion is some inside market manipulation, to what end.. idk.
But it is very, very fishy as this occurs only when significant movements happen.
I'm inclined to believe it is coincidence or at the worst case scenario, gox flipping to manual in order to help safeguard their 'whales'(I use that term very loosely here) when placing large buy orders.
Though, I cannot help but notice that there have been a higher number of said coincidences lately. ;p
And, did we really need another thread for this, as phorensic so elegantly pointed out?