I turned off the registration and deleted all of those new "users"... so far I havent seen anymore come through, and hopefully I won't.  I wonder what they get out of it though.  So many different crazy aspects to blogging that I cant keep up sometimes! lol.

Don't worry. You are not the only one that can't keep up. It is a dynamic environment changing constantly. We are all on a learning curve.

I don't have the user registration active either. I do have staff writers but I usually create the initial login for them and let them change their password. So I didn't have to activate it until now.

But from KNS, it looks like they were able to register even though you don't allow registration?

That's right! From day 1 I turned off the option for people to register, but one day I got an email telling me that a new user registered to the site. I was able to delete the user account with no problems, but it still bothered me that they found a way to register with the option turned off.

But from KNS, it looks like they were able to register even though you don't allow registration?

I don't know why you would allow new users to your blog? Is there a benefit of doing that? i guess if you have a forum on your blog or something like that, it would make sense. I have mine set so no one can register except the admin. When I have a regular guest poster or a staff writer, then I will grant them a user ID and stuff like that.

Agreed. This is why I have it. There really isn't any other reason.

The only reason I would have a new user registration, for example, is if I had an author I was setting up to write articles on the site.  Otherwise no one should be able to register.

Some other sites do have user registrations, so that's why I ask to clarify what you mean.