Thanks. I see your point, but not all sites have lots of members. Several hundred members, and if I have approval over every registration, spambots shouldn't be an issue. This is also tied to an active directory, so unless a user is already in the active directory they can't register.
The user isn't watching the threads even with the settings I put up, the only way the user gets emails is to manually "watch" each thread. I'd prefer my users to already be watching all threads and receiving emails when a new thread is posted. And if they want to unwatch, they can.
I've seen this before and read the answers, but I'm not getting new users on registration to be automatically watching all threads.
Settings:
But this is what the user sees after registration:
What am I missing?
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