Positive Promotion vs. Boycotting

[O Doyle Rules]

As a player who plays a high volume of online poker, (as many others on this forum) I am greatly concerned about the high amount of rake that I pay month after month. The discussion of boycotts have come up in the past, (and more recently with pokerroom's rake increase) after actions of sites were obviously taking more money out of our pockets. In one older thread, I even stated I would support such a boycott.

However, the more I thought about this, (with the help of Stu Pidasso's post about a High Volume Players Association) a better alternative to boycotting sites would be to promote ourselves to the sites as a "group" to poker sites. The sites that want our play will then start to make offers for it. (Thus greatly reducing the cost of playing for that group)

Postively promoting ourselves to poker sites (IMHO) has more long term potential than a short term boycott. I am not saying a boycott cannot be effective, just not longterm and definitely not positive.