Are you talking about a new account you created?
Possibly you have evil IP. There is a fee to pay for it to whitelist the IP.
Could something be done to use the site using Tor?
There is a special link which will allow you to bypass the anoying captcha. You will find it once you visit this URL:
https://bitcointalk.org/captcha_code.phpyes!
I tried registering with Tor and it took me half an hour to complete all Captcha. Then it said I couldn't post.
Could something be done to use the site using Tor?
I was in the same boat as yourself Borilla because I've registered using my (paid) VPN provider. Since this is a shared IP probably it ended up in a "evil list" as Royse777 rightfully said.
In my case I had to pay a small BTC fee to an address that I got whenever I logged in. You basically can't do anything until you pay your fee to the address provided. Upon paying if you wait a while the account will automatically be allowed to post/make threads.
Don't be like myself who waited almost 3 years to activate his account ... ((bells) Shame on me (bells)
I was trying to create a new , more secure, account.
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