Who actually wants the Voynich solved?

[JoJo_Jost]

I think you’re mistaken. Of course, there are some here who just criticize everything on autopilot, and you can tell they often haven’t even looked into the topic. Those are usually the frustrated ones who are just trying to defend their own half-baked theories.

But most people here are experts—meaning they’ve been working with the VMS for a very long time and have seen many solutions come and go.

With a deeper understanding of the VMS, you can quickly refute a lot of it. Take substitution alphabets, for example. That fundamentally contradicts the structure of the VMS. Then there’s a lot of nonsense—very strange, anachronistic ideas, alien theories, mechanical theories, and so on—that hardly anyone here will take seriously. It’s just too far-fetched.

With the more serious theories, however, it’s a different story. Here, it’s just like in science: a new theory must be able to withstand criticism, because only if it survives that scrutiny will it be taken seriously. It’s actually the job of other experts to try to disprove it. Just like with Stolfi’s Chinese theory. None of this is meant to be mean or negative. It has more to do with the fact that when you develop a theory yourself, you tend to overlook its actual pitfalls. 

Well, I think—apart from the first group—that all of this is pretty normal. And you just have to ignore the first group...

And believe me, some people would actually be glad if it were resolved—then they wouldn't have to obsess over it anymore.