Sounds like the initial part of password testing, and then they either forgot to complete it, or someone came along to fix the later parts, commented them out for testing and never got around to fixing/uncommenting. Surprising how often things that ‘work’ are set aside and no one is in charge of reviewing.
If you burn it, or fail to use it, someone you briefly thought maybe should go on the list gets to use it
Because they are a reasonably long lived organization with at least some rules and rituals that can be used as a base for theories. If they didn’t exist, a different organization would be used as the seed, or a fictional one would be made up. Unless you can think of a number of other organizations that for some reason aren’t picked on the same way? Church can’t be used quite the same, because they are to mainstream and inclusive, though secret societies within churches often get the same treatment.
That’s their strategy, let some laymen in to look around, show them some fake ‘secret’ rims to show they aren’t really that special, while the clevery hidden real secret doors are quietly moved as you leave and enter each room. You end up being just one boring anecdote on the Internet, but over centuries it adds up to hundreds of ‘eh’ accounts to hide the real story… It’s brilliant!
The’logic’ behind it is that if you copy/paste, then the confirmation box is basically useless. If you copied the wrong account of just part of it, your for sure going to paste in the exact same thing without really checking. Not that it’s a good reason, but at least there’s some logic