[Talk] Jim Handlin Woodstock Nov. 4

[ReneZ]

I wonder why most of the decipherers rush to present their solution all at once, without any previous consultations with the (experienced) Voynich community. The places are known - Voynich Ninja, mailing list, blogs of Pelling and Bax, plenty of opportunities.

Anton,

this is not difficult to explain.
Some do (but they don't go to the list you presented).
Many don't.

They simply don't recognise the (experienced) Voynich community as such.
Their first target is invariably Ray Clemens.
Nick and myself get our fair share.

From my own experience, once I expose the problems in their 'solutions', invariably they argue that I am wrong, and I cannot know anyway, because I haven't solved it myself.
So I wonder why they asked me in the first place, but never mind that.

So what is going on here?
Here's my amateur psychological analysis.

Any would-be solver believes that he has solved a problem that 100 years before him (her) nobody has been able to solve.
This puts them 'above' all other Voynich enthousiasts, which makes the opinion of such enthousiasts less interesting.

Now they go to Ray Clemens because it is easy enough to find out that he is responsible for the MS.
They come to me because my site figures quite high in any google search.
They invariably like it a lot, but they don't really read it

Many (if not most) of them are nervous that:
1) Someone else finds the solution before them
2) Someone else takes their solution and takes all the praise (and possibly rewards)

This means they prefer to keep everything under wraps and present it all at once.