Admin activation for new accounts when option set to none needed

so i originally had the forum set to no activation needed. somehow something was changed by your applying settings to a template or something.

please do let this happen again as i had no idea at the time so i had not idea how many people had trouble getting new accounts.

Hello,

Yes, we have seen this appear to happen on a ton of forums lately. We believe this is the result of a recent update to FM's anti spam system, however, we are not 100% sure because the pro team off for the holidays. It should again, we believe it was a 1 time thing.

-Brandon

Hello,

Please note: whatever your member activation choice, the admin must manually activate new members as long as there is no activity on the forum. This action was taken to prevent spam.

Was your forum inactive without connected admins, posts etc?