As weak of a point as it is, OSR is correct about one thing. A large portion of the conservative element has exported itself to discord. This is more a product of RL pressures towards echo chambers than anything in game, but it means that the posting community tilts even more to the left.
It is also been well established that many are so fed up with the continued dynamic of working your ass off each cycle only to just get steamrolled by 10% instead of 30% for going on almost 3 years now, that blatant exercises are becoming not only accepted, but even celebrated.
So the question at that point becomes, how do you unwind this dependency without further increasing the power and dominance of one party rule. If I could turn the clock back I would, the simplest answer is the impossible one.
Absent that I have repeatedly asked that people not wait to the last minute, not post the bare minimum and post in the form of legitimate posts for multiple cycles. Sadly, water follows the course of least resistance.
I've long proposed to require validity posts to be split over 2 months (or if you want to be punitive, over 3-4 fortnights); to make it hard if not impossible to do stuff like that.
My thought is that of the ¿8? validity posts for this April election, you'd need at least 2 to happen in March and 2 to happen in April (or for a fortnightly proposal, you'd need 2 to happen between the 1st and 15th of March, 2 to happen between the 16th and 31st of March and 2 to happen between the 1st and 15th of April).
Another proposal I had was to require a "minimum word count". So say you have to post at least 100 words over the past 8 weeks.
The main issue (other than lack of interest) is always that it'd be too hard to track for Peebs and that we shouldn't make her life harder.
Another issue is that while they make "validity posting" hard, they don't make it impossible. Minimum word counts can be defeated via copypastas and monthly or even fortnightly requirements can be defeated if you are persistent enough (though I can't imagine that many people who require validity being determined enough to be dragged to the forum twice a month)
Finally, while not related to everything, I remember ¿YE? once raising the point that not all Discord voters are validity posters (many post regularly enough in the site to reach validity on their own) and not all validity posters are Discord users (I can't think of many examples here that apply nowadays, but the AAD people Griffin dragged in here in Jun 19 might qualify).
