No bitcointalk doesn't block VPN/Tor/Proxies from creating accounts at all. You might need to pay a small fee though if you are creating an account from one of these.
Hmm interesting. I never knew certain types of registration requires a fee. How much is it?
It depends on how often people sharing your IP address have been banned (and people sharing your subnet have been banned).
When you register, the IP that you used when you submitted the registration form is used to calculate your evilness. The more frequently this IP or its neighbors were banned, the more evil is associated with your account. The amount of evil associated with an IP decays slowly over time, but the amount of evil associated with an account does not. You
must pay or be manually whitelisted to enable posting on one of these "banned" accounts.
Here are some stats:
| Evil | % new users |
| 0 | 53 |
| 0-1 | 35 |
| 1-10 | 4.4 |
| 10-20 | 0.80 |
| 20-50 | 2.2 |
| 50-100 | 1.3 |
| 100+ | 2.9 |
Currently each unit of evil requires a payment of 4023 satoshi. You only need to pay something if you have 1 or more, though.
Tor = 50 units of evil by default, I think.
How are is the units of Evil thing calculated when making someone pay in order to start posting with an account? What criteria is used to make someone have to pay at all?
large amount added to all IPs used
small amount added to IP subnet
