Freeborn is/was the first person who had/has been helping me as well deliberator, so I share the same sentiment as you. I tried to up-vote your friend mudcat36, it 'took' seemingly, then I noticed the post was 11 days old. (he gets the whole amount now right?)
No he gets nothing, I will see if I can get him to write some new stuff, and it seems @freeborn helps a lot of new people, and never makes a fuss about it or tries to claim credit, he does it selflessly.
It certainly seems that way...You've helped me too in ways...