Damn those HRE, abusing the settings! If only there were some way that the devs could check this! Alas, the devs just set up every server to the database without checking anything yet

On a side note, even if it WAS a custom setting (which I'm pretty sure there's no option for), by playing on the server in such a manner would be exploiting a bug, so if it occurs, you should just leave anyway. same principle as long spear on horseback, you can but you'll get in trouble.