Generally about proposed solutions

[LisaFaginDavis]

People need to understand what "here's my solution, tell me what you think" means. If I were to take the time to read and critique every "solution" sent to me, it would be hours of work every day. Same for Rene. When I am asked by a journal to review a submitted essay, I need to consider the time commitment before responding, because if I'm going to take on that work, I intend to be thorough and constructive, which takes time. I already have a full-time job, so my discretionary time is quite limited. I simply cannot take the time to carefully read and thoroughly respond to every Voynich message that comes to me. And when I have responded, I have yet to find a "solver" who answers my response with anything other than defensiveness and sometimes anger. I have received threats and insults in exchange for my time. Hence my reticence to review solutions at all anymore. 

If you aren't ready to submit your work to a journal or press that requires peer review, then you should post it in a blog or self-publish and summarize it here if you want feedback. And do the reading before you even start. Read Ray Clemens' book. Read Claire Bowern and Luke Lindemann's work. Read my work on the paleography of the manuscript. Watch Koen's videos. Check out the Voynich 2022 Conference Proceedings. Check out Nick's blog. And more (there's an enormous bibliography on Rene's website). Learn what we already know, or think we know, before you jump in with your own theories, because if your work is not consistent with what we know to be true about the VMS (or what we strongly suspect to be true), then you cannot possibly be "right." It is inconsiderate, and a waste of everyone's time, to send a theory out into the world that doesn't account for the actual evidence. Also, search the Ninja forum to see if someone has already proposed and discussed your idea!