That shouldn't matter. People waiting for a response regarding a deposit not showing up, cash out requests being stuck for weeks, verifications not being looked into, etc, everything points at Poloniex simply not giving a damn anymore about their customers. It might be because the owners have full pockets due to the massive previous volumes they were generating, or they are facing serious legal issues in the background that people here aren't aware of. Poloniex has always been a top exchange, but they for whatever reason got messed up big time - this definitely isn't an exchange I would people advice to join.
Yeah, I think it's got to be a clusterfuck behind the scenes. Either legal issues as you mention, or they're trying to conceal losses from hacks.
I don't think "legal issues" could explain things, unless this were a situation like Bitstamp, where we have seen many examples of people's accounts being disabled for AML/KYC and law enforcement concerns. Those cases clearly all follow a similar protocol and there is a clear (if unfair) explanation for account disabling and termination.
In this case, we're just seeing radio silence for 3-4 months on some peoples' stuck transactions. Compared to 1-2 weeks with Bitstamp. There are scant reports of accounts being disabled and no reports of similar law enforcement concerns. Just stuck transactions everywhere you look. It's just like Cryptsy. I hate to say it, but this is exactly what Cryptsy looked like when their problems began in earnest.