I was told that I have 186 units of evil that I have to atone. I was asked to pay very small amount of bitcoin but I refused to pay, not because I can't pay but due to the elementry knowledge I got from jury. If I pay for an evil I did not commit, it means I have agreed that I committed the evil or I am an accomplice.
You're absolutely right about the logic of admittance by paying the "evil" fee. That will be a possible verdict in a competent court – If you didn't do it, why did you pay the fine. This evil fee wasn't a thing when I got registered here in 2017. It was much later I learnt new users were getting directed to pay such. It would've discouraged me in my days if it was there. One, for the fact that I haven't had an experience of paying to access any forum, I would've just abandoned my account. Secondly, because I knew next to nothing about Bitcoin before coming here, I would've left too. How would I've known how to buy Bitcoin and then send it to the wallet address provided by default?
*If I could actually be whitelisted for free, why make me wait for months or why make here difficult for people to access?*
The whitelist option was made available after a lot of veteran users criticised the fee. It may not have been there when you first registered. I'm just guessing. However, the whitelist is to encourage users who have genuine intention coming here, and not those whose intention is to farm accounts and then cheat on campaigns with their farmed accounts.