disallow signing in forum before approved

[fatherofspeed]

I want to keep new forum registrations from being able to sign in before their registration is approved (moderated). How do I do that? I hope it will keep the spam bots from using up my band width. Although I have it set to new users being moderated, they are still logging in and i assume that's where my band with is being sucked up.

any ideas?

Thanks.
amie

[Lynne]

AdminCP > Settings > Options > registration options > Moderate New Members They will be in the Users Awaiting Moderation usergroup until they are approved so set that usergroup up how you want it for those users.

[fatherofspeed]

I'm doing that. The problem is that that even though they are in the "users waiting" queue, they can still log into the site. i want to prevent that from happening. I think that's how the spambots are stealing the band width.

thanks!

[Lynne]

You can "steal" bandwidth whether you are logged in or not. It's just the fact that you are on a page on the site that steals the bandwidth, so I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish.

[fatherofspeed]

thanks for clearing that up, lynne. I thought that they had to be logged in to steal the bandwidth. I did take someone's suggestions and put a different question/answer instead of recapta. I also banned several IP addresses. so far no spam registrations and no crashing of the site since i did that.