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[@Sugar and Spite]

Short and to the point: I love BBcode. I think it's rad. It makes threads look incredible. But sometimes I'll find an interesting group role-play, but there are numerous "hurdles" to overcome to participate. Character sheets, a good stream of locations needing inline images to support your character, and oodles of background information/rulesets needed. e.g. "To post, you need to frame your replies in the style of the thread." ... It ends up becoming more of an exercise in aesthetics than writing. It intimidates me and puts me off. One reply shouldn't take 3 hours to format/proof. But maybe that's because I'm used to IMs/writing on online games (such as Gaia/WoW/DnD) where the replies are instantaneous! 

tl:dr: Too much BBcode can be intimidating.
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I've told people before, "You want my post to have a header? Give me the header. I'll edit the post after I post it, and add the header. Anything more than a header? I'll send you my posts, you add the bbcode, and send it back to me to post."

Which they didn't like, can you imagine?

The nerve of some people.

(Yes, tongue-in-cheek.)