To whom it may concern:  I turned on: CAN VIEW TOPIC

and turned off: CAN VIEW REPLIES

for GUEST (not logged in)

I tested my site: https://dvalliance.com/discussions/members-tech-discussions/welcome-to-technical-discussions/#post-41

And was able to see both the topic AND the reply (ie: Joan Jett)

This is not the way the security setting is supposed to work (as I understand it).  Please fix this?

I have turned the "CAN VIEW TOPIC" back off on my site (for now), and added a screen shot image of what this looks like. 

Yes I did clear out all caches

Yes I did clear web-browser cache

Yes I did clear user caches & wpForo Caches

Yes I did clear web-server caches.

Yes I did log out, and log back in (even shut my web browser down)