Evil is evil or bad or etc and this won't even be considered by theymos to be changed in the future cause it bothers nobody or very few,
It actually bothers a lot of new members who register on the forum. New registrations make up a bulk of members on the forum and if you check the statistics, there are lots of members who register and never make a post here on the forum, some due to loss of interest and sme due to proxy bans, a lot of which who have never had an account on the forum and did not contribute to the units of evil.
It turns away many new members, and while it is yet to be removed, theymos has implemented a strategy that creates an alternative other than paying the fee.#
- Jay -
I don't really think many people left the forum because they had evil points at the time of registration which forces them to pay in bitcoins, and we also don't know the stats so I am just being neutral here, AFAIK, avoid using TOR while registering bitcointalk itself can end up in smooth process with no evil points then they csn use TOR network for accessing bitcointalk if they really concerned about their IP address stored on forum database.