A new member joined our forum and I activated his account. The option was already set to User; so does that mean the user could've activated their own accounts or I really had to activate their accounts? I can keep Automatic Activation turned off because it's the only way to firewall from users creating a multitude of accounts or from ban evading but no one's banned yet and I assume they're all different people. We just got our first regular member that came to join in and have fun but even if it said User Activation, admins still have the option to choose whether or not to activate a user's account.
This screenshot shows the member of whom I've just activated within the past hour:
This screenshot shows the member of whom I've just activated within the past hour: