Please tell us a bit about yourself, how you discovered the forum, whether you were a member on the old forum, and what interests you the most about stolen history.
Forum Guidelines
For new members, please also keep in mind the following guidelines:
- This forum is for those who want to collaborate and share knowledge in the spirit of discovering truth about history related topics.
- Take your time to familiarize yourself with already existing content before posting new threads.
- Never post personal information about other members, and be careful about sharing personal information about yourself in the public area of the forum.
- This is a research forum with the clear purpose of sharing knowledge, not a group chat. The signal-to-noise ratio should be as high as possible. Noise is everything that doesn't add information value to the discussion, or derails it.
- Please keep in mind that all of the current members have been educated according to the official narrative, and are familiar with the official versions of the events.
- Be polite, and respectful. We all can sense when things go in the wrong direction. Diffuse the situation instead of provoking your fellow debater.
- Ignore trolls. Report questionable posts to moderators.
- Do not “derail” threads. If what you are about to post into a thread has nothing to do with it, but is considered important by you, please start a new thread to discuss what you have to share.
- If you chose to start a new thread,
- please select a proper subforum matching the topic of your thread. If none matches - use General Subforum.
- please give your thread a meaningful title, and not just one word saying nothing about your thread.
- provide a topic for discussion. Don't just post a link to some source, or to a video. Please add alongside a few words explaining the message, or question you are trying to deliver.
- Please select an avatar for yourself. While this is obviously not a requirement, a little image next to your post does serve as some kind of personification, if I may put it this way
- Message the moderators if something isn't working as expected, or you have a suggestion that doesn't need to be made public. The forum itself should be kept for meaningful discussion and collaboration.
Formatting Guidelines
The basic formatting tools you see in the editor are easy to learn, often self-explainable and make it easier for others to read your threads.
- Please center your images so that it's visually pleasing to read your threads
- Center your videos
- Upload your images to the forum, don't link to external images, as those may disappear
- Don't post images as files - either use a thumbnail or the full image. Ideally you click on "full image" and then re-size it accordingly
- If you have any problems with your threads, ask a moderator to help with formatting or editing
- Use headlines with larger font size or bold text for separating different subtopics within your threads
- Separate text into paragraphs where appropriate. No one likes a wall of text
- Use lists (like these bulletpoints) when appropriate to structure information
- Use indent when including quotes where you don't want to use the forum quote functionality
- Use text coloring sparingly. When in doubt, don't use at all
- Don't overdo it with smileys

Overview of Forum Rules
Besides these guidelines, our basic rules (which you agree to strictly adhere by) are:
- Treat others with respect - no personal insults or threats.
- No product advertising (its ok if you share a book you wrote, but advertising for the sake of it will not be tolerated)
- One account per person.
- No sharing of personal information about other members
- No promotion of illegal and morally inacceptable activities
- Respecting the moderators
In general there will be a single warning when you break a rule, and a permanent ban in case it happens a second time. You will not be allowed to re-register anew.
Please read this thread if you want to know how stolenhistory.net came to be:
Welcome To The New Stolenhistory Forum
Deleting Your Account
If you wish, you may delete your account in your profile settings. In that case, all of your personal info will be completely deleted within 2 weeks. You can stop the deletion process if you log-in during those 2 weeks.
Trusted Members
Users which we put a reasonable level of trust in have a verified badge. Currently, these are mostly users from the old forum with a known reputation and some new users who post high quality content.
Verified users can do everything normal users can do, but also have the ability to:
- Post unlimited numbers of threads and post without a time limit
- Edit their own threads for three weeks, instead of one week
- Edit their normal posts for an entire day, instead of 60 minutes
- Edit the Wiki
- maybe more in the future
Donations (planned)
Donations will be implemented strictly to cover monthly or one-time costs, which will be shown transparently. Everyone who donates will be able to download the entire forum content in a readable format regularly. At least this is one of the ideas, but we'll see how it evolves. Backups will be provided either way.
Backups (planned)
To avoid the knowledge disappearing again, we will create complete backups of the entire forum regularuly, including the images and videos. You can then download these backups (it will be around 10-20gb) and browse the entire forum locally on your PC.