invited to channel status gets stuck

nextnametaken

Over the years I've been invited to some channels and when I joined them I never saw any text coming from them.
I thought people were just weird and liked sitting in a room together without saying anything.

Later I noticed that I had 'invited' status set for the channel instead of 'joined' and couldn't do anything about it but leave the channel. I was re-invited to the channels but still something wasn't right.

When I made my own channels and invited some people to them some of their statuses in my admin panel remains 'invited' and not joined after they've hit the join button on the UI Pop op. I've tried to correct it by uninviting and inviting again and still, something goofs.

Is there something more to it?

It should be /channel_invite channelName soandso
they get a pop up to join the channel
they click join
I type "Confirm channel subscription" into the channel
they choose the channel from the little menu and type "confirmed"
then I put on my wizard robe and hat

But I'm being hat blocked by an error of some sort.