Olivia f you use post by email and have people in the Contributor role who post via email, they will automatically be set as drafts as well as pending review.

Additional notes:
If you have enabled the option to Follow Comments in Settings > Discussion, the option is disabled for password protected and private posts.
Keep in mind that if you’d like to password protect the majority — or all — of your posts, and you might want to change all of them to Public in the future, you’ll need to update each post one at a time as there currently isn’t a way to bulk edit multiple posts to switch from Password Protected to Public. Instead, the best way to go about this is to set your blog to Private.
When an image or media file is added to the content of a password protected page or post, the file can still be indexed by search engines. It can also be directly accessed by visitors without a password.

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