To help clarify for @Michael R, the first concept one needs to realize is that - technically - Validating is a membergroup. It is a membergroup with very limited permission, but it is a membergroup nevertheless.
You choose to have your promotion rules only apply to certain membergroups. In your case, you may want to exclude Validating from being considered from any promotion rule you create. Just make sure you set each rule that way. Or, you may want to create promotion rules that specifically only apply for Validating. It's your choice, but you're given the filtering abilities to choose what membergroups you want to be promoted.
If done correctly, none of these should take effect (since they are promotions) UNTIL one has been validated. YOU have control over when/how the promotions apply (dependent upon the criteria that IPS gives to use for promotions).
Unless there have been extensive modifications to the core code, those criteria for promotions will probably be limited (at least compared to a few other scripts I use) at first. Hopefully on down the line those criteria will be expanded to allow more specificity.
I know with XenForo the "awaiting validation" is not a "Group" but an actual account status. In addition, the script itself - even though the user is in a "registered" state - does not grant the user permissions other than guest have UNTIL they have verified their email account. There is no "group" for those that are pending validation (awaiting email confirmation) - although you CAN run a promotion for those with a status of "awaiting email verification" as a specific criteria and place them in a group that has restricted/elevated access. You would then also have a promotion configured so that when their status changed from "awaiting email verification" to "valid" it would remove that secondary group.
With that software it also (the groups) is based upon a "ladder" outlook. You have your base group that ALL belong to (including the admins/moderators) then you add secondary groups to those to allow more (or sometimes restrictive) privileges. Those groups can be promoted into/out of based upon a wide variety of criteria. It was an entirely different design paradigm from most scripts and is what gives the most trouble to those coming over to XenForo from any other script since the "attitude" is having one group for each need - with replication of permissions in all of them. This can be very confusing to new XenForo admins at first, but the more you use it the more you come to appreciate the granularity of control it allows you.
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