Why do wikis and forums use Bulletin Board Codes not HTML?

Why [b] rather that <b> ?

1. More secure against injection attacks
2. Allow the programmer to easily provide a restricted tag set
3. To give an easy to learn set of instructions to the contributor.
(written 2007-02-21 20:47:28)

 

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