[stigmata]

The problem as I can see it is this:

-Choice is good, for everyone, good and bad players alike. People should be free to choose who they play.
-We don't want 1 person monopolising all the empty tables
-We don't want hundreds of tables full of nits refusing to play other nits.

The simplest solution I can think of is that each person is only allowed to sit at only one *empty* table only. You can have ten HU games going if you like, but you can only be waiting for a new challenger at one table, and one table only. This is absolutely fair and democratic, and solves all the above problems.

This could be solved through software, or it could be an agreement until then.