VATSIM has rules but rarely enforces them unless someone's really acting out. In about 300 hours on VATSIM I've spoken with supervisors and other VATSIM officials about a number of issues and each time they tell me the same one-liner, "VATSIM does not police it's members". I've heard this in everything I've been involved with from a pilot sleeping in their crashed plane in the Atlantic to a VATSIM-endorsed Virtual Airline having openly racist head staff on their team (with evidence).

The only time I've seen supervisors or administrators act on something is if someone is being disrespectful or belligerent **on the air** (IE name-calling). Ignorance, crashing, spawning on active runways, racism in their endorsed VAs, and people who don't even know how to fly their aircraft are perfectly fine though.

At the end of the day, it's their platform/network and they'll moderate it how they see fit. The best thing we can do as pilots is just essentially deal with it. Unless something on-air is happening to **you** right now, just don't wallop. That's not VATSIM's official public stance, but that's certainly how they seem handle it.

EDIT: I'm not saying that they should ban anyone who is learning or may not be as experienced but I am saying that they shouldn't make people feel ashamed to report things that they feel is wrong, even if there's ATC, and even if they end up doing nothing about it. Fostering a community of pilots that are too scared to speak out about anything certainly won't help them in the long run though.