Discussions, post-mortems, analysis, inflated egos, and all that jazz.

Petya, you yourself wrote that "In my worldview, not every task should/can be paid for in principle, regardless of what it's paid with."
These are your words, not mine.
Once again, someone may do something for free out of their own free will, but at the same time, they don't owe anyone anything.
And when you don't owe me anything, I can only get something from you either by asking or by illegal and criminal means.

The problem is that you see a cause-and-effect relationship here, but I don't. Not at all.
People help the forum for free because they enjoy it. They receive non-material rewards for it; their brain rewards their body with happiness hormones from the fact of being involved and other non-material values. This cannot be measured in any money or pleas. But then Merlin appears and invents his own economic model. He says that if it's free, then it must somehow be paid for. Well, at least with pleas. Okay, but this is just a point of view, forced by the desire to destroy my message. In my opinion, that's all it is.
Maybe you should ask the organizers how pleasant it is for them to receive thanks for their work in the form of pleas. That would be more objective than what you're trying to prove to me.