Morgan,
Apologies I didn't know you were away for extended periods of time these days.
It would appear from the code that all you need to do is put a member into any exempt group and they should immediately become exempt from seeing the
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links.
Given the attachment I added in my first message did I set it up the right way? If someone was a member of planet-9 insiders group and then added that 4 digit number to that profile field should they then be exempt from seeing any items in that category? I do understand how it is supposed to work don't I?
BTW adding individual user accounts won't work because there could be hundreds, so I need to use a usergroup and for other reasons as well. I'll keep running some more tests.