I wonder how many users that had no previous contact with bitcoin, never bought or sell any would do that for the first time just to get an access to this forum. By the way, how much is that evil fee at the moment?
Not much, but presumably some if they are low enough.
Based on that older data that LoyceV found, approximately 2% of those paid the fee but what surprised me is that fee is much higher than I expected. I somehow thought that it is in the range of a few k satoshis, so more like a symbolic amount, but not 0.0011
BTC. So high enough to stop abusers but not too high in order not to deter people from bitcointalk. And those are the numbers of users that paid the fee when BTC was much lower. If there was no evil fee reduction in the meantime, that would mean that someone would have to pay almost 40 USD to remove that thing. In that case, percentage can be only lower.
One more question: when you pay the evil IP fee, does this resets "evil" back to zero so IP is clean from that moment?