The thing about "only weak password accounts have to be reclaimed" is impossible, as the passwords are stored as hashes. Therefore MtGox can't know if a password was weak or not. So actually everyone needs/needed to reclaim.
O wait, maybe you're right. Maybe (or probably, I did not make a screen print) it said something like that sufficiently strong passwords didn't need additional proof. However, my reclaim was not accepted without additional proof regardless of the complex password.I asume it does not help much to post here, you should get in touch with mtGox and check what's the reason the claim has been rejected.
For me this is a great place to exchange experiences and to find out if there are other people with the same problem. Which turns out to be true.In the mean time I'm trying to get mtgox to solve the problem, while ventilating my experiences, sorrows and emotions in here.
Ok, status update: They did get back to me, I got a new password, but only to find out that my 'pre-crash' balances were 'withdrawn'. No bitcoin address to where the BTCs supposedly were 'withdrawn', and no info about the 'pre-crash' USDs that were in my account.
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