Because it sucks. BBCode was acceptable eight years ago because we just had nothing better. Frankly it's every bit as stupid and unintuitive to type as HTML, only with a fraction of the functionality.
Markdown exists and has a huge installed userbase, most of the users not even realising it. The content of tye's ordered list above is a shining example.
Wikicreole exists and has the clout of a sorta-standards process and comes with rationale and code and tests.
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The content of my ordered list. Not the formatting of my ordered list. Those two items are shared by many wiki formatting schemes (including the two mentioned) and by POD.
Note that I see a worthwhile "win" in supporting those two points. I don't currently see a worthwhile "win" in supporting any one of the many, often quite similar schemes for avoiding typing things like <em> and doing links more verbosely and slightly differently than PerlMonks already does them.
But, no, I really don't see a "win" in replacing <b> with the equally-verbose [b] especially since [b] already means something at PerlMonks.
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Because it sucks.
well, at least you usually have paragraphs automatically.
not like here where you have to add paragraph-html tags.
and it's better than HTML because you don't need all the
HTML functionality and people usually don't know HTML. *and*
the markup used here is no HTML, only a kind of subset
with additional tags. so at least compared to the current
markup used here I think bbcode is better.
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bbcode was created by programmers who didn't know how to parse/filter/sanitize html, its not better in any way or form
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Aren't you glad you asked? Certain monks are just to 1337 for your bbcode things. Old school html only! :)
Btw, I prefer bbcode for speed purposes, so I do like this idea despite it being rejected.
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