It may seem strange coming from me, having been involved in the Voynich MS for more years than anyone else here (to the best of my knowledge), but I regularly perceive that the Voynich MS and the theories surrounding it are taken a bit too seriously.
I don't think it's worth fighting about.
I wasn't going to write anything in the Leo / goat mosaic thread. Neither I nor anyone else has the time to comment on everything.
However, there was a clear request for feedback.
A digression... I regularly get E-mails from people who report some breakthrough in the decoding of the MS, sometimes to the point of a claim of complete translation. In none of these I have ever seen anything that had any chance of being correct.
When pointing out the problems in each case, the reception of this is just not there. The negative feedback is not accepted.
Not rarely, the person is offended, and more often than not, I get the response that, since I can't read the text myself, how can I judge that the proposed solution is wrong. So, then I wonder (but don't write): why ask me in the first place?
In fora like this, getting no response at all, to something that one perceives as important, is certainly frustrating, but this is completely common to all discussion boards about the Voynich MS. Many times, people read it, digest it, but don't have much to add to it. Maybe they don't know whether it makes sense or not, and then not saying anything is quite a reasonable thing.
When honest criticism comes, then this can be negative. This should not be interpreted as a personal insult.
Mail messages tend to be relatively short, so they may seem more direct.
I do strongly object to the statement I read yesterday that I am:
Quote: attempting to maintain the now eight-year campaign to suggest that I am irrational, or inconsistent, or illiterate, or 'out for glory' or any other among the useless and pointless stream of memes
This is imaginary and uncalled for. Simply not true. I do hope that that sort of thing stops here.