in reply to Re^2: Wiki-Style syntax for posting
in thread Wiki-Style syntax for posting

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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Re^4: Wiki-Style syntax for posting
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2008 at 10:12 UTC
    bbcode was created by programmers who didn't know how to parse/filter/sanitize html, its not better in any way or form