Wooow, Looks like I wasn't the only one who had a
Rough Bitcointalk WelcomeAnd for the record I was using Tor browser that day.
Spent a good deal of time solving the captchas and when I finally registered and logged in after more captchas.... Guess what?
The goddamn ip I registered with was an evil ip!
Of course i couldn't pay that fee however little it was. I just decided to create another account on a cloudfare friendly browser.
That was indeed a good solution. Thank you but you know the registration process took more than 20 minutes. I never experienced with such registration process. That's why it was a terrible experience for me. Some probably will give up too.
I tried registering an account using Tor browser(which should be bad enough to be able to check the captchas), and saying that it took you 20 minutes might be quite over exaggerated. It definitely took more than a minute to solve the captchas, but definitely very far from 20 minutes. Not sure why it took that long for you assuming you're honest about your estimated duration.
OP may have not exeggerated his ordeal... If i remember very well. It took me over 15 minutes to get registered through Tor only for me to be shown a banned IP address message.