Comments need to be on separate lines for the boolean values to be parsed as

bools (and not strings).

ctrl/modopts.ini

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 ; Modules which use this file should use options=load("modopts.js","modname") first
 
 [newuser]
-send_newuser_welcome = true // Set to false to disable the new user welcome msg
-ask_qnet=false				// Set to true to enable QWKnet Node question
-ask_sysop=false				// Set to true to enable Synchronet Sysop question
+; Set send_newuser_welcome to false to disable the new user welcome message (email)
+	send_newuser_welcome = true
+; Set ask_qnet to true to enable QWKnet Node question (sets 'Q' restriction)
+	ask_qnet = false
+; Set ask_sysop to true to enable Synchronet Sysop question (sets FLAG 1S)
+	ask_sysop = false