Under GROUPS in the admin section, made it visible to anon users, AND the same in the module... theres a permissions and make visible option in there as well, AND... in the category for the story... AND in the story itself....

All that to make it visible for one group tends to mean a bug will creep in somewhere, maybe it could be made more simple....

I'm 99.9% sure I did everything I was supposed to, to make it visible, and even made it identical to the registered users option which IS visible...

I have had to install NEWS as well, JUST FOR THE ANON USERS... and a duplicate of the story... and the anon users can see it...

But I dont really want two modules to do the same job, NOR do I want to post the same story twice!

Seems, for now, I am stuck with having two modules... and NO, I dont want to JUST have "news" becasue I like the story being "there" for people to see, the spotlight function, whereas NEWS makes you click on a link...

thats always a good option,that and posting a message to new users asking them NOT to spam the boards, as its rude, unappreciated and a violation of private property. You open your boards to decent people, who respect your property, the site is not open to those that spam.

Appoint a team of Moderators that can delete and ban spammers as soon as they post, really, declare war on them, they will soon leave you alone and try elsewhere...

but having the guest account open is a bad idea....

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no, sorry, did that, AND gave then access in the module permissions AND in the story itself....

for the life of me, I cannot figure this out. I'm convinced either I'm stupid, which I'm not, or theres a bug. Thats why I'm asking here.

oh well.... 2:37am and I'm off to bed... maybe someone has the answer...... I hope.

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Firstly, I'd love to know what this site uses to display its news on the main page, because I can see it before I even log in.

The problem, I installed smart section, latest version, and no matter what I tweak, it will NOT display the spotlighted news item to users before they log in, after they do, its fine, works a charm, but before, arghhhh...

what am I doing wrong, or is this a known bug? I want people to know why they cant log in, the site is undergoing major changes, till then, no one can sign in, menaing, everyone is an anonymous user!

Help would be very much appreciated.

OH, I tweaked EVERYTHING... it SHOULD work.... but doesnt.