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. https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2032&start=100#p46292 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 https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2277#p52744 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.