Building the open web

You have used Rabbit Hole module to prevent people from being able to directly visit to select content items, but when you include those items in a reference list Drupal is still linking to them.

Here is one way to fix that.

How can a group of thousands of people talk about and decide anything? How's this 'community' concept supposed to work at scale, even in theory?

Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work), but not all decisions should devolve to implementors. A better ideal is that decisions should be made by the people who are most affected.

Building your website on Drutopia has the advantage of allowing multiple people to create content of different defined types that can be clearly related related to one another, listed and presented in different ways, and filtered.

You've built sites with Drupal and know that with a few dozen modules (and a ton of configuring), you can do nearly everything in modern Drupal.

But what do you do when there's not a module for that? When the modules that exist don't meet your needs, and cannot be made to by contributing changes?

You make your own.

This blog post accompanies helps you take that step. Making a module is something that anyone can do. Every person developing a module is still learning.