Configuring and managing the sign-up flow with user approval

Thanks for getting back to me. Here is a screenshot of what my staff category looks like right now. All the “new user .. requires review” messages are what I want to end up in my inbox instead of as topics in the staff category. I’m new to discourse, so probably I have set some setting that did this, I just can’t figure out what I did.

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