XF 1.2 Why some users go into Approval queue

[Mr Lucky]

I'm a bit confused by this.

I have set my forum so users don't need admin approval, they just need email confirmations.

So I assume they would just become members of the registered usergroup and not need approval.

However it seems that some people who join go into the list of Users Waiting Approval, but others don't.

I thought it might be connected with this:

Moderate registrations when this many warning flags are detected: 1

However there are two people currently in the queue, one I can see has an email SFS, but the other one shows nothing in SFS for name, email or IP

Is there a logical explanation for this?

Thanks

 

[tajhay]

because flags have been detected whereby they are most likely to be spammers. in my case 100% of them are that go into approval mode.

 

[Mr Lucky]

because flags have been detected whereby they are most likely to be spammers. in my case 100% of them are that go into approval mode.

Then I don't understand why one person is not findable in SFS - negative results for email and IP, however his username is only 3 letters and SFS comes back sating it's too short to search - would that be the reason?

 

[Jeremy]

P: Users are requiring administrator approval regardless of my "Enable Manual Approval" setting.
S: XenForo 1.2+ comes with a set of spam prevention features that will verify a registration against Stop Forum Spam, DNSBLs, and Project Honey Pot. Depending on your settings, it will either reject registrations or place them in manual approval. Check your spam settings here:
ACP -> Options -> Spam Management

Further Reading:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/spam-prevention-and-management.51091/

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/troubleshooting-faq-frequent-problems-solutions.62138/


It checks more than just SFS.