for some reason people find BBCode easier to use. The [B]<U> and [I] are simple in HTML just like BBCode, but it is much easier for a little 7th grader to do
than to think about it and add the extra stuff
We have HTML classes at our school that last about 14 weeks. The fact of matter is that some people jsut find HTML hard like they find any scripting language hard and like "u" is shorthand for "you", BBCode is shorthand for HTML.