Disable Sign Up through Auth0 ONLY -> I want to use my own sign up method

I’m honestly not sure why it is not working. I created a user just now using the following:

[
    {
        "username": "markdtest1416",
        "email": "me+test1416@foo.com",
        "email_verified": true,
        "password": "A Very Secure Password",
        "given_name": "Mark",
        "family_name": "Drummond",
        "connection": "my-db"
    }
]

And email_verified is set to true as expected:

  {
    .
    .
    .
    "email_verified": true,
    .
    .
    .
}

Now, I did this by calling the Management API from a python script using the Auth0 python SDK. There must be something different in the way you are creating the user. Can you provide more details?