well, I have been a long time member of another 2 forums,, where they use an allow list, and it works very well tooo. and its no big deal to wait a day or 2 to get on the list to play. nobody seems to mind that there.BUT i will say, its a little diff there,, there are no passwords anymore,, since they have the allow list. if it s a buy in tourney, and ur on the list,, u can just join tourney. and if they have a freeroll, u have to have qualified in other ways,, and then it will let u join,, no morepasswords there. It seems to work well there. AS far, as new members,, i dont think an allow list will discourage people from staying,, if they really want to be here, for more than ONE day,, and those are the members u are loooking for anyway,for longevity., BUT i will say,, and dont take this the wrong way at all,,I do think doin all the surverys, and having problems, for so many poeple, gettin the points,, discourages them more, and they leave, . I know this, from bringing some people here, from my other forums, but they wont stay casue of this.I DONT KNOW what the answer to this is tho, or what other w ays zab can come up with to keep his games goin,,but i do think there will have to be some other ways eventually, to keep members here, bring good players and new memebers here, and keep them too. I know games, have to get paid for tho,, so it is a dilemma, for sure, but hopefully things will get figured out, and be a success here..I know my one of my other groups, has small buy in games too, and if u play in any of those in a week, then u can entry to a freeroll too. JUSt a thought also. ok,hope any of this is a help.