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One excellent point Warren pointed out in his discussions (I'm not sure if it was in Vol.1 or Vol.2) is that when you do ultimately decide action is needed, the penalty needs to be in accordance with the rules.
In our leagure this past summer a protest was upheld when the official had an infraction requiring action but elected to declare the offender out in lieu of ejection. He felt that was a less harsh penalty. His intent may have been good, but unfortunately, it was not within the rules which specifically indicated ejection was the penalty for the offense. The "out" squelched a nice rally. The offending team had an available sub to take the place of the offender had the correct penalty been invoked.
As stated, the protest was upheld, and certainly as officials that is something we need to strive to avoid.
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