Users can see topics posted by other users?

[Brian Peterson]

Hi. We are running IPS 4.1.19.1 and we have a forum subsection where we want only moderators, administrators and staff to be able to see the content besides the original poster of a topic.

Under permissions we have disabled the setting that allows users to see topics posted by other users. This is allowing our normal members to submit and see their thread posts, however ONLY administrators can see the threads. We have the same settings and permissions for the subsection for administrators, moderators, and staff and have cross referenced those groups permissions as well (reviewing group permissions vs forum section permissions). What are we missing to get this operating correctly? Obviously bumping folks unnecessarily to administrators is not desired or needed.