that is very odd behaviour, surely?
the point of Guidelines is that these are there to be read and agreed to when signing up to the community
this is a problem because when these static pages were created (it seems) the concept of FAQ and Guidelines was amalgamated when in fact they are completely different items for different audiences. See the comments- which I don’t think were properly addressed here:
I can see an argument for FAQ items to stay hidden for private communities, but the point of guidelines is that they apply to all users and my intention is to ask new users to read and agree to them before signing up.
A related issue is that Discourse only allows these three static pages and so lots of different requirements are shoe-horned into three pages when we really want more fine-grained control.