EasySocial comes with a wide variety of configuration options that allows site's administrator to customize most of it's behavour. Lock Down Mode is an example of the powerful option available in EasySocial.
What can this option do?
Enabling this option, it will prevent guest from accessing the community. It is different from the site lockdown mode in Joomla. This will provide advantages to the community in term of privacy and security. It also can prevent unauthorize users from sharing any of your site's content outside of the community.
Another feature integrated together is allowing guest to register to the site. It is by default was disabled in EasySocial. However, site's administrator can turn it on Allow Registration During Lockdown, allowing guest to register to the site.