My users have reported that the very light gray text that appears in the AccuRev GUI's Pulse Code Review field (when viewing an Issue) looks more like the example, "suggestion" text that sometimes occurs in web UIs for fields that are expected to be filled, than text which is intended to be descriptive for a point of data.
If this text were to be a darker gray (or simply black) or otherwise configurable, my users would not see that box and get the impression (at first look) that the read-only field is prompting them to enter information due to what looks like "example" text.