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In addition to all that, a solver posting on a thread on daiin's reduplication to say "actually daiin is dane!" or something of a similar can be confusing for new people who aren't yet able to tell the difference between the limited things we know about the VM and the myriad wrong solutions we have.   
 
The rule has definitely made the forum better imo.  I don't think we need to change it.  Solvers have their own threads that they can use, e.g. the Danish solver can post in their own thread to say "That thread Koen created yesterday about how often daiin occurs next to another daiin proves my finding that it means 'dane'."

I think there's a difference between theories that are solutions, and most theories that aren't solutions, e.g. that the text is meaningless.  It feels to me that it's easier for the latter to be found acceptably or borderline relevant to the topic.  Not sure why.  Maybe it's to do with how much the person seems committed to an objective debate. There does seem a difference to me between the "daiin = dane" example and someone saying "daiin daiin doesn't occur to this extent in natural language, so this would support the meaningless hypothesis."