is it the backlog of withdrawals they have left? or have they not even started processing them
There's a distinct lack of credible posts from anyone saying they received USD for the last 6 weeks or so. If they had been processing hundreds of withdrawals over the last two weeks surely someone would have posted. It would certainly be in Gox' interests to encourage them to post, or even to give priority to processing the withdrawals of forum regulars. Even if they were scamming they would be smart to pay out a few forum regulars to give the impression everything is OK. I conclude either they are completely skint or they are hopeless.
someone did post here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179586.380... looks like they are hooking up whales but everyone else is getting shafted...