Ho to add/change usergroup names at bottom of What's Going On

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Thanks Hartmut, it's resolved now.

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Most spamming these days is done by spambots. Have a look at this thread, https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...istration-Bots
Follow those instructions...

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I had the same problem as you, where my site was spammed by spambots from china and other countries.
Have a look here, https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...o-Reduce-Spam-...

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No mate, I'm talking about the user groups like Adminstrator, Moderator, VIP, Registered User, etc. displayed in their allocated colours at the very bottom of the What's Going On section on the home page....

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Could anyone please tell me how to change or add usergroup names at the bottom of the What's Going On section?

Thanks in advance.

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My site too was hacked by Team Animus, however, they only defaced my site. I found the following on my site;

Hacker SQL injected admin user with userid 13371337.
Moved all Admins to...

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Thanks Steve, your first answer hit the nail on the head. It was a mod causing the problem. (Separate Sticky and Normal Threads)

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Hi,
I recently discovered that the inline moderation tool on my forum is not working at all. For example, when I want to select all the threads on a page, (Select All) nothing happens and the boxes...

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Thanks m8, that did the trick.

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I just upgraded my forum from vb3 to vb4 and I've had many members complaining about their IP and ISP host details being displayed publicly, when the IP icon is clicked. This icon is displayed at bottom...

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Update;- Found the problem Lynne, the url in Site Name / URL / Contact Details was pointing to the mainsite not the testsite. All styles are displaying fine now.

Thanks for all your h...

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Hi Lynne, When I look at my testsite's home page, all I see is just a text display. When I look at the page source, well, I get a lot of code which I do not know much about it's meaning. The only reference...

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I have had all the settings you suggested Steve, but all I get is a text only display.

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@ The_Big_K, yes m8, I agree with you! Now I'm a newbie at all of this, so can you imagin how badly I feel about installing or upgrading vBulletin. There is not one proceedure that completes successfully...

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Thanks Steve, I will read the upgrade docs and see if I have missed something.

Update; thanks everyone for all your help, my testsite is up and running now. I restored my old vb3 site,...

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Please be patient with me Trevor, as this is all new to me and I'm on a learning curve. I am not quite sure what you mean by "you need to run the Upgrade script". Do you mean to run the upgrade...

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If the hooks are disabled, then I just get database error page with no specific errors displayed. I installed vb4.0.8 to my testsite from scratch with an empty database and all was fine. When I restored...

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Thanks for your fast reply Lynne, but what I'm looking for is a solution to the problem that generates the error message in the first instance, not how to see the error message on a general database error...

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@ alsirhan, I had the same fatal error message as you, except I did not have any array_merge errors. When trying your solution by adding "define("DISABLE_HOOKS", 1);" to my config.php...