It wasn't complaining, it was constructive criticism to help improve the site.  You know, to make it better for people that register in the future!

Mine was missing letters.

Also the button for getting a new captcha didn't work for me either.

I had to keep reloading the registration page until a full captcha appeared.

Thanks for this, it works perfect for me.

It's a lot easier than dealing with the command line, very nice.

If I had anything to donate, I would

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I use the script on this page, it works great:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133856.0

Naked

It would not have been difficult for the forum to store a cookie when you first visit the site, and track your time on the site even before you register. Then when you do finally register, it acknowledges the time you already spent on the site.

Like a lot of people, I read many posts on a site for weeks or even months before finally wanting to register - and then you have to wait and can't even ask a question, even though you're not really a newb.  Oh well I guess it's only 4 hours, but that seems like forever when you have a question to add to an existing thread (outside the newb forum).