Limit post and edit permissions to leads and leadership #113
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Overview
The site had initially been set up with the idea of being like a wiki and editable by any logged in user. This has been a large attack surface for link spammers for some time now. So we want to limit the ability to post new projects and edit them to be limited specifically to project leads ("staff" level) and leadership ("admin" level), to ensure what is being posted is genuine.
Fixes
In order to post a new project they must be at least "Staff" level which means that an admin will have elevated a trusted volunteer to have that status within the site. Without that a user would not be able to see or make that request.