What would life Thurner, Szell, be like without rules? A recent study by and Sinatra(2012) examined the behavior of avatars in an online world with no rules and found, perhaps surprisingly, that the lack of rules did not result in disorder. There was very little cheating or antisocial behavior. People organized themselves into groups and traded, communicated, nd moved around much like people in the real world owever, almost every community in the real world.