dixie...one thing this site has taught me is how to open the law book and how to read it. I was being serious asking what he had looked up. best way to learn. if everyone were to request being spoon fed like cody we would have half the members on ignore lists.
Ddjamo, you do yourself an injustice - I'm sure the site has taught you much more than that! :wink: Throughout the vast majority (if not all) of your tenure on here, we've taken time to nurture and develop new refs, spoon-feeding if you like, recognising that reffing is a lonely calling, and that people need a warm and cuddly place to come and pour out their woes to a sympathetic group. If, in that environment, you've nevertheless managed to learn to open and read a law book, why do you assume that the newcomers will not learn the same thing over time?
I doubt there's a question bothing a new ref that hasn't been asked and answered before. If all we do for a new ref is to grouse that they didn't a) check the good book; and b) use the search function, then we may as well close the forums and treat the accumulated wisdom as an archive. My own preference is to allow anyone in need of help to ask any question at all that's bothering them, and get a thoughtful, considered and considerate answer from people who have been there and worked their way through the difficulty - with or withoout support from the group on here. That way, the enquirer will develop knowledge and in time may well feel motivated to return the compliment for a new generation of referees. I certainly hope so. Those who disagree can simply add more and more names to their ignore list, and everybody wins.
Perhaps I'm weird, but I have an empty ignore list.
