I hate to say it but it feels like a Mt. Gox waiting to happen. There are a lot of fishy things about Poloniex. Does anybody really believe that this massive yet crappy and highly secretive service is really run by a Tristan D'Agosta (that's a Italian royal family name by the way), a part time music composer.. really?? I won't be leaving money sitting on the table there and I certainly wouldn't recommend it to others either. I'll only trade there when I have to. Bittrex is for me a better solution now before at lot of new exchange solutions start coming onto the market.
I didn't know those details about the owners... thanks for sharing.
Let's hope that Poloniex will figure out a solution and everything will normalize soon