Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-1251315-20151029181016

Mfaizsyahmi wrote: This is infringing the liberties and rights of the minority. No it doesn't. Verbatim is a security attack vector and someone could use this to attempt to hack accounts or steal passwords from anyone who goes to a page with the vector placed in it. I am quite happy to see it go, there are way better methods for all the uses of it.

If your use of verbatim can't be replicated, then ask yourself whether you really need that feature or if it is possible to do it in another method entirely that does not compromise the security of other users of the site.