I agree with Marokai's assessment. And to answer your question, Hashemite, no- I do not believe anything can or should be done. As I've said numerous times, legislation of this ilk creates more problems than it attempts to solve. "Zombies" are an unfortunate fact of life here.
There are widely varying definitions of what constitutes a "zombie" in Atlasia. Personally, I define it as a voter who registers specifically for voting in one election, then disappears. Or perhaps comes to vote in the next election, barely meeting the post requirements to be eligible to do so. (I forget what the posting requirement between elections is, someone remind me.) I do not accept that an active poster in the forum who rarely if ever posts in Atlasia is a "zombie", and I have repeatedly opposed legislation that would eliminate such voters.
By my definition of the term, zombies are by definition newbies. We have no way of knowing whether a newbie who registers to vote with the minimum post requirement will turn out to be a "zombie", or whether they will become active participants. Such registrants are therefore worthy of being given the benefit of the doubt.
For what it's worth, I completely agree with this post. I don't think that there is a "zombie problem" and to the extent that there is one, it's parties registering people from off site by having them spam 50 posts and then voting in the next election and disappearing. The only way to prevent that is stricter posting limits
before registration.
On the other hand, I don't think that people who only post rarely in the elections board but still post in the rest of the forum are zombies. Not every voter needs to be fastidiously involved in the political debate here, just like in real life countries some voters are more informed and some take a greater part in civil society and interaction with politicians than others.
