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Originally posted by chuckfan1
Plus, a parent, coach, etc who asks a question, no matter how obvious we feel the inquiry is, I feel a responsibility to help and inform. They will take away from that short conversation (or post)some newly gained info, and some positive reaction to an official! Gee, what a few minutes of time will do!

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Walking to the field, and a parent/coach/player asks you to explain the IFF, or a question here on the board? The right context.

You are totaly missing the point. This is the "Official Fourm." It is for sports officials to discuss the various aspects of officiating. It is not a place (at least it should not be) where uneducated coaches and fanboys come to ask simple rule questions.

Originally posted by chuckfan1
Again, if you or anyone doesnt like the post, move on. Does it really take that long to click away??

Once again you are missing the point. Read what Garth wrote.

Originally posted by GarthB
It (Ignoring posts) doesn't work. It's been tried on other boards, and it doesn't work.

Many of us were encouraged, even solicted to post to this site at it's inception because it was not a LL site and it was not a coaches' site. We had seen other sites transform from big boy umpiring sites to LL umpiring and coaches sites. When we ignored the LL and coaches posts they just multiplied to the point that one couldn't see past the clutter. It wasn' worth going there anymore to read the first paragraph of 75% of the threads and to find they didn't apply to umpiring baseball above T-ball or LL.