Headmin Rulings

This is a compilation of headmin rulings on various policy questions asked by players. This page does not replace the rules and whenever possible the rules should be referred to instead of this page. The rulings listed here can be referenced in ban appeals and admin complaints.

Please note: Some of these questions are for very niche/specific situations. Some of them cannot be applied the same way to every situation.

General Rulings

Vampire Policy: Vampires are not antagonists just by being a vampire. -KorPhaeron

Organizing mass grief as security or a head: Do not organize mass grief when you are in control of the security force. For context: The original question was when it was okay to remove cat ears or tails. Click the link to read the full ruling on that subject. -KorPhaeron

Adminshopping: Admin shopping is defined as going to different admins until you get a favorable ruling. It's highly frowned upon, don't do it. -Feemjmeem/Agreed with by other headmins

Mass identity duplication: Changing many people into one person via genetics/other methods as a nonantagonist. It can happen every once in a while, just don't do it every single round. -Armhulenn

IC Torture: Don't complain if you get retaliated against for it. -KorPhaeron

Admin intervention without anyone ahelping: It's allowed. -Ausops

Pile on ick ock: Pile on ick ock is defined as a bunch of people teasing someone for IC in OOCing. It's okay until it crosses the line into being spam. Admins can mute OOC/individual players if it gets to that point. -Ausops

IC reactions to OOC in IC: It's okay as long as you're not crossing the line into OOC in IC. -Ausops

Killing nonhostile admin spawned entities: Against the rules, don't do it. -PKPenguin321

Are drones valid?: Only if they do something to annoy you. Mass killing drones for no reason is not okay. -KorPhaeron

Drones building autocloners: Fine unless done to interfere with other players. -Ausops

Are spiders bound to the mother?: Unless there's a message saying you are, the answer is no. -Armhulenn

Using OOC to promote yourself for headmin elections: One or two lines of text is fine, spamming is not. -PKPenguin321

Silicon and Drone Related Rulings

Do AIs need a definition of Syndicate agent?: No, they know by default what a Syndicate agent is. This also applies to other antagonists. -Hornygranny

Do wizards mindswapped into a silicon have to follow laws?: Yes, they do. If you have laws then you must follow them unless you have a law zero. (When in doubt, adminhelp it.) -Ikarrus

Do silicons count as a being under drone laws?: Yes, treat them as any other crew member. -QuartzCrystal

Can you order force-borged cyborgs to pick a certain module?: Yes. -Scaredy/An0n3

Detonating cyborgs with little reason/alternatives: Don't do it. -Ikarrus

Security Cyborg Policies: Just a few random questions related to security cyborgs. If a cyborg is acting as security/releasing prisoners then this is probably relevant as well. Link to answers. -Pandarsenic

Do purged silicons have to act like a crewmember?: There are several threads on this. NOTE TO SELF: FIND MOST RECENT/LINK IT HERE. The policy hasn't changed for about three years, here's the oldest thread. Purged silicons are subject to rule one and must follow normal escalation rules.

Silicons and harm in situations where you can't tell if they're being harmed or not.: Use common sense to decide if harm is going on.

Drones and the shuttle: Drones have no reason to be on the shuttle and probably shouldn't be there. -Ikarrus | It's unlikely this will be enforced and it's possibly not even a rule anymore.

AIs asking for law changes: An Asimov silicon cannot ask their laws to be changed. -HotelBravoLima

Discussion on paladin lawset: No real headmin rulings took place here, this is mainly opinions/discussion about what the laws in the paladin lawset mean. Most relevant is Cheridan's post.

Discussion on paladin lawset: Part 2, the electric boogaloo: Most relevant post is by HotelBravoLima, which applies to law interpretation in general. "Even doing something consistent with an interpretation of laws isn't good if you're being an OOC dick about it to such an extreme, that's the policy." -HotelBravoLima

Drone Policy Guidelines: Guide to drone policy. -Stickymayhem

Are augmented humans still human?: Yes, they are. There's a helpful chart in silicon policy to help explain this, reference that and adminhelp if there's still a question. -Scones

Tyrant module discussion: Just general discussion on the tyrant lawset.

Drones and atmospherics: Improving atmos is okay. Cutting pipes/turning off plasma is not okay. Fighting the symptoms of plasma in the distro is fine though. -Shadowlight213