"Great!" - can be just "the general chit chat" for someone who is "not a big fan of small talk", but when he is on the Communities service his personal preferences shouldn't matter that much.
Well, I might not be a big fan of small talk, or like the idea of general chit chat, but I wouldn't be enforcing the rules based on my personal opinion on it. It would be removed for being low quality.
because it has become almost impossible to login using TOR (which of course is another matter).
This page might help you:
https://bitcointalk.org/captcha_code.phpIt allows you to bypass the captcha, and is quite handy when running into captcha issues when using Tor.