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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Admin intervention without anyone ahelping: It's allowed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be continued.