[drupal-devel] promote to frontpage: confusing.

[Anisa]

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> Carl, you don't get it. You can set very easily set 'forum' to be your 
> site frontpage, or you can just set 'node/12' (node/view/12 in 4.5) to 
> be your frontpage. Then the promote flag has no effect on a node 
> showing on your own frontpage, since it is not the default 'node' page.
>
> Goba

Sorry...  what does the promote flag do, then, if it doesn't affect 
whether something shows on the front page when the front page is not the 
default node page?

Anisa.