[Panel Session] Cryptologic History panel Oct. 19, 2017

[Anton]

Hi all,

I haven't had time to read this thread in full, but occasionally I spotted some discussion regarding the mods team attitude, namely these posts:

I understood from the moderator team here that they tend to agree with the good rule of not dragging issues from forum X into forum Y (in this case here).

That sounds like a plea for censorship. I can imagine you do not find it convenient having hard questions following you around the 'net. I've avoided it for the most part, and only came here to set the record straight on my relationship and opinion of the Beinecke. But isolating unanswered questions to "forum X", and then not ever addressing them, or incorrectly answering them, on "forum Y" might be helpful to keeping people in the dark, but it does not help further the investigation.

Just to make things clear, the first statement (by Rene) is true, but when one speaks of "issues" here, that does mean that we don't welcome personal issues/tensions/conflicts/etc. being dragged here from other places. Very often, when people are enthusiastic about something (as we all are about the Voynich manuscript), their discussions, when in disagreement,  can sadly bring forth personal disputes. We try to keep the talk "personally neutral" here, but what occurs in other places is beyond our reasonable control. So we simply encourage the VN participants to (using poetic phrase) drop their personal tensions at the VN doors.

This does not mean, however, that we would like to practice some kind of "censorship" and prevent discussing Voynich-related issues here which have been discussed elsewhere. No such censorship is in place, we are "Voynich theory-invariant" and stand for impartial discussion reinforced with good argument. It's good when facts and arguments are discussed, and not matters of "Mr X vs Mr Y".