Straighterline New Proctor Policy Change

[IrishJohn]

Recently I noticed there was increased activity on the Straighterline page (I get an e-mail for every edit) but didn't have time to keep up with what was going on or to monitor the forum here. In my defense, early on in the process I saw what appeared to be criticism still on the page and only glanced at the page without fully reading it, so I didn't realize it was spam. I saw the notice about the policy change at the top of the page and assumed we had a sudden overzealous forum member upset at the policy change making a lot of edits. In this I appear to have been naive, and for that I apologize.

While I don't know exactly who was making the edits, or why, I can take action to protect the site for the good of the community here.

I'm not "Heitah", whom I believe is from SL, but I was the other person editing that page. If you look at the history of edits all I did at first was add an update briefly stating SL's policy change and giving alternatives to SL courses, which you left posted. I didn't really mind much of what Heitah posted on that page, it was her/his removing my comments while continually tweaking an obvious sales pitch that started the "editing fight". I kept trying to just leave my comments while toning down their sales pitch, they kept deleting my comments while improving their pitch. It was after a few times that they did this when I started completely deleting their comments in return. I was very unhappy with what appeared to be an underhanded and deceitful action by a private company trying to take over a resource for DF forum members.
My apologies, in hindsight I probably should have taken a different approach to avoid the subsequent "tit-for-tat" that resulted. I'm glad that it has now been resolved. I would say again though that much of what Heitah posted I was fine with, such as listing the courses they offer and schools which accept their credits.

The Straighterline page is locked for admin edits only

That sounds good, thank you.

Finally, I want to say thank you to everyone who has contributed content to the wiki. I have seen several "thank you" notes over the past year from people who were helped along in their journey, but the wiki is only a collection of the information each of you has meticulously investigated and put together. You deserve all the credit. Thanks for what you do!

Thank you for starting the DF Wiki, dcan. It has indeed been a great resource. Now that I know what happened with the SL page and everything is cleared up, I've gone ahead and restored my own entries.