Using them too much makes you seem weird! Or too easily excited!
I’m not asking for a rule outlawing them! Or even a guideline! Just for people to simmer down a little and only use them in the rare one in a million case where it’s actually called for! Which in Cafe Society would likely be never! Or a revival of Firefly! Whichever comes first!
Thanks! Now proceed to tell me how wrong and silly I am! Hey, it beats another topic about how much you think various mods fail at modding!
Look, I’m going to make this easy for you.
This is not exciting.
This is exciting! Exclamation points make things exciting! And fun! Why do you hate fun?!
Fun-hater.
+1!
I think that you should use more than one.
Hey everyone!!!
See how exciting that is, compared to that drab example you posted?
Exclamations demand them. Sometimes thread titles are exclamations.
Usually they’re not.
I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark bar didn’t come out!
¡If only this were Spanish! ¡You could write all your titles this way!
I believe it was Hemingway (?) who said, “Nothing less than the end of the universe merits an exclamation point.”
Or something like that.
mmm
And, see what happened to him!!!
Timmy!!!
All caps!!!
Timmy!!! !
"The use of more than one exclamation mark is a sure sign of a diseased mind. " – Terry Prachett
Aw shucks… you know me so well…
Dammit!!! I came into this thread to post the Pterry quote!!!
And I think it was Fitzgerald who said using exclamation points is like laughing at your own jokes.
He can’t hear you!!! He’s trapped in the well!!!
Why use exclamation points???
Which explains why I hate Tom Wolfe’s fiction so much. Every! Damn! Page! is Littered! With Exclamation Points!!!
Nitpicking punctuation Nazis ruining Doper’s good time!
Story at 11.
Why not go all the way and combine punctuation marks?!?!
As the song goes:
Interjections! Show excitement! And emotion!