[Steven Zahm]

@ Mary

That’s should be possible at all. The status is set based on the current user role capabilities which a standard WordPress security function used throughout WordPress itself. If the user isn’t logged in, the will have no capabilities at all so the status will automatically be pending which means it’ll end up in the mod queue.

Do you have any social media login plugins installed which would allow logging in without a user account? What is the default user role set to? What is that default roles capabilities set to on the Connections : Roles admin page?