Decoding the Voynich Symbols

[tavie]

another way i thought of is creating my own website.  and have a members area where people can view my findings.  to enter ans see the information they would have to fill out a form with email adress phone number and name.  then i would have a paper trail and time frame.

You'd be storing people's personal data.  Since you're in the UK, you would need to consider to what extent GDPR bites and what responsibilities this may give you.  

I don't get this fear over copyright issues.  Maybe I'm imagining it but it seems we've had several theorists in the last year or two fixating on this, and it doesn't seem it was a common worry before.

You worry that all the time you've spent on it will be wasted if someone steals your credit for the decipherment.  But if it's wasted time you're concerned about, your bigger worry should be that the time is being wasted on a dead end. Well over a hundred people before you have convinced themselves that they have deciphered the manuscript.  They were all wrong but they were - and almost certainly still are - passionately convinced that they were right.  Given that long list of n solvers, the odds are high that solver n+1 will make the same kind of mistakes as all those before them.  Not reading existing work before you start (to help immunize you against making their mistakes) makes the odds go higher.