Tailed unfortunately

I was grumpy, but luckily I had an answer to a password related question that I could over-explain. Now I'm feeling a bit better for having accomplished something. :-\

Who's calling me a nerd?! Let's see how confusing, incorrect, or incoherent that is after I get some sleep.

Huh. Community unburied a question with only a [guess who] answer. I know I saw it before but I guess I didn't vote it up or down at the time.

I think that's a bad answer, but I can't even tell what point he's trying to make. Why does it have 2 up and 2 down votes?

That's a weird answer. I have never downvoted an answer from him before finding something definitely wrong and screaming incompetence. This answer I just can't understand. It almost reads like bot generated text. It doesn't look like he understands what he's talking about. But benefit of the doubt. I have no idea what he thinks those words mean or what he means to say.

I think it's best I don't comment, vote, answer, or do anything that might lead to him staying on the active questions page for any additional time...

I was wrong. It looks he might actually be interested in learning. There are like minded people that publish stuff that looks like his writing. Arxiv, ResearchGate, MDPI. Distilling entropy. Bits per byte. Trial and error pseudo-math. "Photonics"

It's funny that he suggests dropping high order bits until you fool an auto-correlation statistic. Sounds a lot like eyeballing an oscilloscope and judging whether or not your signal is sufficiently squiggly. Or not getting the fundamentals of statistical hypothesis testing.

docs.google.com/document/d/…

Could you guys help us solve this?

Thank you for asking here in chat rather than on the main site!

I'm not much of a puzzle solver myself

@EllaRose Okay! I posted it on chat because I didn't know the question rules here. Thanks for the fast response!

that was the right thing to do - such questions are actually off-topic on the main site and get closed

@EllaRose Okay

@EllaRose Even if you aren't good at solving puzzles, can you detect ciphers or things like that?

If not, then I'll continue with my approach at the puzzle

I looked at the pastebin in your link. I have no idea how to help

that looks like a "real" poem, you might try finding the name

or author

Okay

And it is a real poem

published in 1811

@MilkyWay90 Maybe try r/codes. Not one of the normal cryptography subreddits, because puzzles, code breaking, and ancient encryption methods are off topic there.