The Official GrahamHancock.com forums

The official discussion boards for GrahamHancock.com

“Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks, but the task of science.”

Erwin Schrodinger, Science and Humanism.

Each day scientists learn more and more about our species and its past, often turning up new evidence that challenges the accepted views and received wisdom of long-established orthodoxy. But because we live in an 'Information Universe' it is no longer the professional academic alone who is privy to such disconcerting news. Since the advent of the worldwide web the old intellectual monopolies have been broken. Now we all have the opportunity, if we choose to take it, to challenge habitual assumptions and to play a part in piecing together the puzzle of who we are and of our forgotten past.

The Message Boards at www.grahamhancock.com have been made available to further this endeavour through lively debate and the sharing of focussed information. If you have a question or a unique idea of your own, post a note to the relevant message board and hear what others have to say about it. You never know - you may provide a missing piece of the puzzle. To register for an account that will allow you to post to all the www.grahamhancock.com Message boards, click here. N.B. DISCLAIMER: As is often the way with the internet, discussions can become heated and personal. Please note that by registering a posting account and participating in the community of our message boards you waive all right to take legal action or make threats of legal action against grahamhancock.com and Graham Hancock in person, or other members of the GrahamHancock.com messageboard, for any comments, defamatory or otherwise, made about you by other posters. In this spirit, any member who posts threats of litigation against another poster will be subject to an immediate ban.

Disclaimer and complaints: Opinions expressed by Message Board participants are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Graham Hancock or the GrahamHancock.com web-editor and moderators. If you object strongly to the content of any message please send an email explaining why to the MessageBoard Moderation Team (email addresses can be found here) who will attempt to resolve your complaint swiftly and fairly. The decision(s) of the Moderating Team and Web-Editor are final and unconditional on any Message Board issues concerning Postings, Topics or Posters.

Code of Conduct

In order to maintain a friendly and constructive environment on the GrahamHancock.com we have created a Code of Conduct that we ask posters to adhere to during their time on the message Boards. By posting at any GrahamHancock.com message board, all Posters imply agreement with and adherence to this Code of Conduct.

General

By registration you agree to be bound by the following.

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, libellous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you enter when registering, they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. Unless you allow for visibility by other posters, the email address you provide is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).

User account and registration

In order to post on one of the GrahamHancock.com boards, registration is required. Click here to register if you have not already done so. Please note the following:

Please take note of the text as outlined in General.

Applicants using an anonymous surfing IP, blacklisted by Internet/Web Security web sites, will not be granted access.

Only one User Account is allowed per person, and it is preferable you should register using your legal name.

Although the use of an alias is allowed, unsuitable aliases will be rejected by the Moderation Team.

Impersonating other posters or other individuals risks the termination of your account.

The email details you provide us with on registration are published every time you post. If your email details change, please do not set up another Account. Simply inform the GrahamHancock.com Team of any changes needed.

Rules of Engagement

Remember that other posters and members of the GrahamHancock.com team are real people. Therefore, and at all times, please employ the same high standards of politeness that are expected of all of us in "real life" interactions.

Please take note of the text as outlined in General.

Please be considerate and never belittle, unduly criticize, hurt or ridicule posters and/or members of the GrahamHancock.com team. Ignorance is better treated with knowledge than ridicule.

In all cases refrain from falsely accusing people and/or groups by conjecture like in far out conspiracy theories.

Racially offensive, abusive, obscene, profane or otherwise socially unacceptable language, literal or implied, and pejorative name-calling ( expressed or implied ) are prohibited at all times.

or ) are prohibited at all times. Posting something that's deliberately angry, sarcastic, sardonic, spiteful and/or otherwise mean-spirited, like racially offensive and/or abusive language, is totally unacceptable. Posting such deliberately provocative things in general and/or or aimed at other posters or members of the GrahamHancock.com team just to stir up trouble will not be tolerated; the same is true for graphic and disturbing images, pornography or links to pornographic sites. All posts that fall into these categories will be instantly deleted.

Discussing and/or otherwise hinting at decisions of the GrahamHancock.com team on any of the GrahamHancock.com boards is not allowed, and may lead to account revocation. However, if in any disagreement with a decision of the GrahamHancock.com team, please mail them to make your case, and allow a minimum 48 hours for a response.

Please do not resort to excessive use of uppercase typing - this is the equivalent of SHOUTING!

Do not use the Message Boards for idle chit-chat. However, chit-chat is allowed to some extent on the Miscellaneous Board.

Messages should be appropriate and relevant to the board on which they are posted. This includes a restriction on severe “hobby horsing” a single topic again and again.

Do not flood the board with large sections of cut and pasted text. It is often sufficient to quote the website URL instead. The help page will teach you how to place images and links on your posts.

Please indicate clearly (be specific) what point you are trying to make in your debate in your initial posting.

While off-topic posts that are relevant to a discussion are allowed to some extent, it is encouraged instead to start a new topic rather than derail an ongoing discussion with unrelated posts.

Limit yourself in posting pictures from other websites because this will use bandwidth and could also infringe copyright issues.

Publication of the contents of private communication between members of GrahamHancock.com, in full or in part, without prior consent of all concerned parties, is prohibited. To do so, is considered an insult to the privacy of the member. Whilst private communication between members and the staff of GrahamHancock.com (e.g. the moderators) is treated with the strictest of confidence, the staff of GrahamHancock.com retain the right to publish such content (in full or in part) without prior consent of concerned parties, under certain conditions e.g. such as administrative problems, moderating concerns, etc. This right is also extended to our "Policy regarding Harassing, Abusive, or Otherwise Objectionable Communications" as outlined below.

Forum policy on Suspensions

Every once in a while we run into the unfortunate situation where we have to suspend members for poor conduct at the forum. We have a formal process for dealing with members who decide to break the code of conduct repeatedly. This process will only be applied in extreme cases such as personal insults, foul language, and generally persistent vindictive posting on the part of the member.

The member will receive a maximum of three warnings and on the third offence will be barred from posting for a period of time. At that point the three offensive posts will be publicly displayed at the forum with a clear explanation of why each of the posts was in breach of our code of conduct.

The reason we're doing this is so all the members can see for themselves that the banning isn't random or unwarranted. Members may see others banned and have no idea why because they have not witnessed the reoccurring behaviour that led up to the member being dismissed by the GrahamHancock.com team.

We need to maintain a high standard of quality in the exchanges here to insure that we can attract more of the extremely distinguished authors we've had the pleasure of hosting. This does not in any way mean that we discourage debate; it simply means that any debate must be done within the confines of the code of conduct by all members.

We hope everyone understands the need to do this. We need to ensure that there is a mutual understanding by all members of the reason for these regrettable occurrences.

Policy regarding Harassing, Abusive, or Otherwise Objectionable Communications

All direct and/or indirect non-message board communication, for instance Email, sent to the staff of GrahamHancock.com, either in official or in private capacity, will remain confidential, and will not be reproduced without permission, except in one or more of the following circumstance:

harassing, threatening or abusive to GrahamHancock.com or any content writer or staff member thereof;

damaging to the reputation of GrahamHancock.com or any content writer or staff member thereof;

serves to vilify, defame or cast aspersions against GrahamHancock.com or any content writer or staff member thereof with the intent of interfering with business relationships, including, but not limited to, affiliations or service agreements (this includes ANY threatening letters to an ISP, Web host, etc., or allegations of activities in violation of applicable laws and/or service agreements).

Any such material shall become the property of GrahamHancock.com. The staff of GrahamHancock.com shall be the sole arbiter(s) of what constitutes a communication fitting the above descriptions. Upon receipt of any such communication, or notification of receipt of any such communication by a party associated with the site, the staff of GrahamHancock.com reserves the right take to take action as necessary to protect their rights and interests, with or without prior notice to the person(s) or group(s) responsible for said communication.

What does this harassment section mean in plain English?

The section on harassment deals only with non message board harassing communication with members of the GrahamHancock.com team – for example by email. In this we want to make sure that whenever a malicious individual emails any member of the GrahamHancock.com team in:

a threatening and/or obscene way, and/or

with bragging texts about how wonderful his/her progress is on wrecking the GrahamHancock.com, and/or

foul rants in general, etcetera,

we reserve the right to expose this malicious individual’s communication on the GrahamHancock.com message boards whenever we feel there to be a need for it. This need will usually arise when we are in a process of banning said malicious individual. Our regular posters usually are not aware of some of the bickering that goes on “off board” and can therefore sometimes have difficulty in understanding why “happy such and so” suddenly is banned. When exposing, we can show the general public the true intent of some malicious posters and we do not want to be hampered by “copyright issues”.



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Copyright Issues

Rules for non-message board content

All non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com is protected by copyright.

All non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com may be saved, printed, copied, etc. for personal use.

You can quote non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com and make use of these materials freely as allowed by locally applicable Fair Use Doctrines.

Please credit the source GrahamHancock.com if you excerpt any non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com.

It is not allowed to sell access to any of the non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com or redistribute them for profit, or otherwise commercially exploit them, without the written permission of the GrahamHancock.com.

This includes the use, reproduction, modification, adapting, publishing, translating and distributing of any non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com (in whole or part), worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such non-message board content of the GrahamHancock.com.

Rules for message board content

When posting on any of the GrahamHancock.com message boards remember to give credit to the authorship and Copyright of any references or articles that are linked to and/or included in said post, and take note of any "All Rights Reserved" Notices on Website Pages/Articles.

Unless otherwise and previously arranged with GrahamHancock.com, all content submitted to any part of GrahamHancock.com that is freely accessible to other visitors and/or posters of the GrahamHancock.com, for instance the GrahamHancock.com message boards, the submitting entity automatically grants, or warrants that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, GrahamHancock.com the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute the Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such Content. The submitting entity also permits any visitors and/or posters of the GrahamHancock.com to access, view, store or reproduce the Content for that visitor and/or poster of the GrahamHancock.com personal use. Subject to this grant, the owner of Content placed on the GrahamHancock.com retains any and all rights which may exist in such Content.

What does this Copyright section mean in plain English?

For all non message board content, normal copyright rules are valid, so no real need here for “plain English” elaborations.

For all message board content the following is applicable: We are safeguarding ourselves against people who want to sue the GrahamHancock.com whenever a poster accidentally copy/pastes copyright protected material on the GrahamHancock.com and nobody from the GrahamHancock.com team notices this post in time. We do this by requiring a grant for use, automatically given by the very same poster who has forgotten to respect the copyrights of others when posting on the GrahamHancock.com message boards. So when push comes to shove, the GrahamHancock.com can’t be sued. The poster can. GrahamHancock.com does not own anything a poster posts on one of the message boards, and therefore does not claim to own what a poster posts on one of the message boards. Even stronger, GrahamHancock.com does not even want to own what a poster posts on one of the message boards.



Advertising

No commercially-motivated messages, such as advertisements or links to commercial websites. It is okay to put links in your messages if these are informative and directly relevant to a discussion. Any other links should be sent to links@GrahamHancock.com, so they can be considered for our links section.