It has stopped some 43,000 on mine since the middle of January. I have only had 3 legit users blocked who I had to manually set up myself. This mod is awesome!

How do you rebuild your postbit?
- Edith Williams (newbee)

Not sure why you're asking in this thread but you do it in the Maintenance section of your AdminCP.

I posted it here because it says the following above:
"Issues are
- The usergroup permissions / view details etc DONT work. I jumped the gun and put the permissions controls in there before I put the code in. Please delete the includes/xml/bitfield_vbstopforumspam.xml file and rebuild your postbit"

So now, I'm nervous because I installed the software pluggin, but I have no idea about the "postbit" part. Why was this not deleted for us? And why do we need to delete this file, ourselves after we install it?

- uneasy.
- Edith Williams.

(thank you for your patience, I'm VERY new at all this)

Ok. Makes sense. Don't sweat it too much. We've all been newbs and all need help from time to time. Do as instructed and rebuild your postbit in the maintenance area of the AdminCP (bottom left in the list) IF YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO. You may not have had any affect on your postbit.

Works like a charm. I owe you a beer or 12.

I have not been able to find out how or where to rebuild a postbit.
Can you direct me?

Thank you sssoooo much!
- Edith

I installed, vbStopForumSpam, and then uninstalled it when I found out it had a Facebook incompatibility issued. I deleted the xml and function files from the xml and includes directories.

I installed Glowhost as the recommended substitute / upgrade.

Now my Facebook does not work, and my Blog section looks like this:

Fatal error: is_member_of_blog(): $bloginfo['permissions'] not defined. in [path]/includes/blog_functions_shared.php on line 275
#0 vb_error_handler(256, is_member_of_blog(): $bloginfo['permissions'] not defined., /home/content/s/f/r/sfrkedie/html/dancerhangout/includes/blog_functions_shared.php, 275, Array ([userinfo] => Array ([userid] => 1,[temp] => ,[field1] => www.salsafreak.com/bio,[field2] => USA,[field3] => Salsa,[field4] => Instructor,[field5] => ,[subfolders] => ,[pmfolders] => ,[buddylist] => 4,[ignorelist] => ,[signature] => ,[searchprefs] => a:1:{s:20:"cmsadmin_showperpage";i:200;},[rank] => ,[usergroupid] => 6,[membergroupids] => ,[displaygroupid] => 6,[username] => edie,[password] => 5a1efb36e35373667817d9071ad65127,[passworddate] => 1303628400,[email] => wowedie@yahoo.com,[styleid] => 1,[parentemail] => ,[homepage] => http://www.SalsaFreak.com,[icq] => ,[aim] => ,[yahoo] => ,[msn] => ,[sk

etc. (location: http://www.dancerhangout.com/blog.php)

Can you tell me what I may have done wrong?

I feel like my entire board is messed up now.
thx.
- Edith Williams

He means Rebuild Bitfields. Rebuilding post bits does something entirely different that is not related to permissions.

After adding / deleting a permissions file, you need to rebuild bitfields. Or you'll get a database error whenever you try to update your usergroups.

In vBulletin 3, go to /admincp/index.php?do=buildbitfields
In vBulletin 4, go to Rebuild > Rebuild Bitfields

I just had to disable this mod as new members were unable to register - will there be a version that works with 3.8.5?