There are bonuses paid out to regular gamblers at various sites.
The community feeling can be quite strong in the online world. You can grow to like / respect people in this forum as well. You don't have to necessarily put a face to a name.
Here, I think they are really making a mistake. If you stick to sites which are provably fair, they definitely are playing by the rules. There is a higher probability of offline casinos cheating.
This is probably true. Give the fledgling online industry some time and we may see better security measures coming in.