The tag is a custom tag that was added by the site admin(s) (one of the cool things about BBCode is the ability to make custom tags; the [media] tag is also a custom tag, I believe), which also means they can remove/deactivate them. I do not know what purpose they were made to serve, but that is the only logical way they could have come into being. It's probably for ease of use by the admins. As all of our posts are surrounded by tags without us typing them. Our sigs too. So, they'd probably just make it an admin only function. I don't see how it could make anything easier for anyone. The only use we've found so far is breaking pages. They might have it surround posted text in their database, but that would make removing its functionality a big mess. They'd have to remove all instances of it in the database (otherwise the tags would show up in all previous posts) and string comparison of that magnitude could take a long time. Not to mention the fact that they'd have to reconfigure how posts are handled. That is not a project anyone I know would look forward to. I'm guessing there's some special use for it that we have not found yet because setting yourself up for a mess like the project described above is just downright bad horrific coding. It's either that or, more likely, the only reason it has not been removed yet is the very fact that they don't want to face such a project (the fact that it has not been used anywhere but here also helps, but just the potential for anyone to break a bunch of pages is not cool when you're a site admin). :ugeek: Tell me if I'm over-analyzing this. As a geek and a nerd, I never can tell when I'm over-analyzing anything. Also, if I'm missing anything obvious here, let me know. I also have a tendency to miss obvious things when analyzing issues with multiple unknowns. It's possible that they added it innocently without knowing that it was capable of breaking pages. I'm not sure how likely it is that they would have tested all of the tags for page breaking properties but they could have overlooked somehow. They probably never anticipated that some people would decide to test out random codes one day.