Rule Enforcement

[Kairyuu]

• Do not loophole.
  • Loopholing is the act of exploiting a not-explicitly-forbidden part of a rule; violating the spirit of the law but not the letter; or finding something not specifically included in the rules and stating because it does not explicitly state that something is against the rules that it is acceptable. Loopholes include misuses of the battle system, run rules, site rules, staff rules, etc.
  • An example of loopholing is stating that it is acceptable to flame a certain user IC because it is stated as acceptable in the Flaming Rules above, but the references made are based on an out of character disagreement (such as a break-up out of character automatically for no reason becoming in-character drama or an excuse to attack and kill another user). In this particular example the user would be breaking another rule, Grieving.
• Do not attempt to lawyer the rules.
  • Rule Lawyering is similar to loopholing, except a user is attempting to justify their loopholing with rules being taken out of context. If you would like more information on Rule Lawyering, refer to the following link: [LINK]

These two rules are very clear in their intent. Over the years on NC there has been a problem with people going into help, asking a question, and simply being told "No rule exists to stop you". That statement is a clear-cut example of these two rules being violated. The admin team is no longer going to be turning a blind eye to this. Help exists so people can ask for things that they aren't sure on. The lack of a rule being overly specific to your situation is not approval to do said thing.

People who go into help and break these two rules will suffer a middle infraction. If you want to post in help helping someone, by all means do so, but if the basis of your help is to violate these rules by pointing out a lack of ruling somewhere, then you are going to suffer the consequences.