If You Could Log-in Without Difficulty Would AFK'rs Matter?

[Vertisce]

So, a person AFK is taking up more active resources...

You miss the point though. Someone AFK isn't doing anything. That's wasting resources. Resources which, depending on the kind of server and how it is set up, may or may not be effecting the game for everybody else. If they were actively doing something or even passively doing something like macro crafting then that would be different. In all honesty I doubt that a few hundred AFK people is going to do a damned thing to anybody who is actually playing but when you are talking about server stability and performance you want everything you can get. I would also agree that as long as there is a population cap then sitting AFK all day should be discouraged for obvious reasons.