i was 14,250 in gox queue on Saturday, now i'm 11,800
one day later and i'm only 11,620
Now i'm 10,360 so i've moved nearly 4k places while the queue has still gone up over 4k, so i guess that means about 8k new requests since Saturday?
How many of those are signing up to cash out? 10% maybe?
I strongly feel the queue length is being manipulated. But I also doubt that 10% are signing up to cash out. I've yet to find someone with any significant amount of Bitcoin without a Mt. Gox account.
They have also hired a dozen people to process the queue, when there was only a couple of people doing the verification work a few months ago. So rate of decrease in backlog (without counting new sign-ups) is much faster.