Remove the ability for Anonymous users to create Supporter nodes

[yorkshire-pudding]

This is causing a lot of spam and I'm not aware of any valid reason for allowing anonymous users to create supporter nodes. Any objections?

[olafgrabienski]

No objections, quite the contrary. I think, one problem is that the path node/add (often used by spammers) redirects to the Create Supporter form.

[bugfolder]

I've turned off "Supporter: Create new content" permission on the site for anonymous visitors (so node/add now returns a 403).

But this did raise the question in my mind: how do authenticated users (i.e., people we might want to create Supporter nodes) find this capability, and/or find our list of Supporters?

The list is here: https://backdropcms.org/support/supporters. A few suggestions on this page (which i'm happy to add if others agree):

• Add some words to the header explaning what "being a supporter" means
• Add a link to "add your own entry"
• Since there's only one and a bit pages, expand the pager settings to show all on one page, rather than making visitors use the pager to see the last three rows.

Where do we link that page from? It's not in the menus, and it's not linked from the "Ways to Contribute" page https://backdropcms.org/contribute, where I would have expected to find it.

[yorkshire-pudding]

I think there are some spam ones in there as well that aren't completely obvious but that go to sites that aren't real. For example: https://backdropcms.org/node/2087

I imagine a large proportion of the anonymous created ones are spam, but there also some created by users where that user has since been removed.

Removing the spam would get it down to 1 page.

Where do we link that page from? It's not in the menus, and it's not linked from the "Ways to Contribute" page https://backdropcms.org/contribute, where I would have expected to find it.

There is a block towards the bottom of the front page

[yorkshire-pudding]

@bugfolder - can we close this issue now?

[bugfolder]

@bugfolder - can we close this issue now?

It would be great to get some feedback on the suggestions above (which I'm willing to implement if there's support).

[yorkshire-pudding]

• Add some words to the header explaining what "being a supporter" means
• Add a link to "add your own entry"
• Since there's only one and a bit pages, expand the pager settings to show all on one page, rather than making visitors use the pager to see the last three rows.

Yes - I agree with all the above.

[bugfolder]

Great. Since the majority of all opinions expressed over the last several months seem to be in line 😉, I'll make these changes (shortly) and then close the issue.