I'm a new member interested in freerolls and your suggestions sound quite reasonable. It's a good way to force interested parties in becoming good participants rather than just people that sign up and play a freeroll. I've played freerolls on other sites and some do similar things with good results.
I think an important point to consider is that freerolls and the forum feed off of each other.
I've seen people on sites that seem to think their site is the best and only the most hardcare posters should be able to get into the freerolls. Not only did I find that attitude a major turnoff (particulary as a new user), but it's not very realistic as there are so many forums out there that have affiliate sign-ups freerolls, etc and there is a great deal of competition. There's also a big market that will allow for the survival of many of these sorts of sites.
The freerolls bring people as people like me see the name of the freeroll, find the poker site, and check it out. The freerolls ought to be able to bring new people in and increase the profit for the site by allowing some affiliate sign ups. They are also a way to reward loyal members.
I'd make one suggestion. Right now the qualification for the freerolls is arbitrarily decided, best that I can figure. I think a more concrete contribution should be come up and made explicit. You could even make a qualification be something like 7 posts per week to qualifty for freerolls and check the posts to see if anything is suspect, maybe using a character counter to make sure the posts aren't some inane "hi" post 7 times in one thread.  |