>If every imm did this wouldn't it just raise the avg. amount
>given out for initial role entries.

Is that a problem? We're not talking about thousands here. Furthermore, the higher average would also likely even out the rewards between roles of equal quality, whereas now it's random whether your role is evaluated by the guy who likes your kind of role, or the opposite.

This comes at the price of waiting longer. In fact, this would absorb less staff time overall, since people who know they don't like long roles can just ignore them with the expectation that the person who does like long roles might get around to it eventually, and that the person who wrote the role wouldn't want the short-role-preference imms to waste their time reading something they won't enjoy anyway.