Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz)]

This forum is not an academic journal, I expect that a lot of people here are not scientists (but many definitely are). I would consider "peer review" as used in the context of this forum to mean "review by peer Voynich manuscript enthusiasts". When considering a review by enthusiasts lack of interest usually would suggest failed peer review in the sense that enthusiasts are not very enthusiastic about the material presented. This doesn't constitute proper scientific review and I don't think it makes sense to expect proper scientific review on the forum.

Thanks for your reply.

You seem to have a crystal ball in trying to notice and explain "lack of interest" in people's minds as meaning A and not B or C, and continue to remind me of it. I don't know why you are doing this, given that you wish to be considered, and I am sure you are, someone very careful about passing judgments and agreeing with a claim, pro or con.

Silence to me means nothing, in terms of what it means. It could be interpreted as pro or con or neutral, or, yes, also as not being interested, generally considered. It can mean you cannot reasonably argue for or against a point made; it could mean I am waiting to hear more; it could mean, I don't care about this viewpoint but I read it any way; it could mean, I don't like long texts, but I don't mind reading others' long texts; it could mean I don't like this guy for valid or invalid reasons, it could mean I know better what the VM is about, and I disagree with this or that or the other; it could mean I like the views, but I am not inclined to share things in forums in general, it could mean X, Y, and Z.

But these presumptions have no evaluative value when silence is made or is interpreted to mean definitively as how you are going about explaining it, do they—even in a "nonscientific" peer review process as you have described correctly as is going on in this forum?

On one hand, one can show numbers of page visits can mean at least some minimal interest (I am not saying that is the case and I don't take them seriously, but, again, if you are looking for interests or lack thereof, some numbers can be used for or against, but you are not considering it obviously). But, on the other hand, conversely, just because some get lots of attention also does not mean their theory is any more or less worthy of attention than others that don't.

This effort is not about popularity goals as far as I am concerned, and obviously had I believed in that, I would have refrained from continuing given the initial replies and thereafter. All I am trying to say is that there are many reasons we may not be able to solve the puzzle, some of which has to do with our own ways of going about engaging or not with others.