Let's start with Excy. He's just a little line and a dot. He never did anything to anyone, but people seem to treat him like he was a two-bit n-dash.
Excy has some great qualities. I like what they do in Spanish with the exclamation point -- how it sits in the front of the sentence saying, "Hey you, read this sentence with enthusiasm buddy!"(Otherwise you run the risk of not knowing to be excited until after you're already done reading it, and then everyone is sad inside.)
But some evil people believe that using several exclamation points is acceptable. Just like the question mark, some think that redundant punctuation is somehow helpful to their cause.
Many of you may be saying, "But Nate, I love my exclamation points!!1! Why should I stop using them, you punctuation fascist!?!?!?!? And What's wrong with ? marks???"
Fisrt of all Questioney has a name -- and it's not "? mark."
Second, does a reader know that your question is more of a question by your putting several question marks? Do I think your thought to be more important to me because you used nine exclamation points? (Answer: No.)
Here's the thing, in English we have superlatives. We have words that indicate interrogatives. We have lots of really useful words that indicate what we're feeling, thinking, etc. The punctuation mark only servers to clarify the intent of the sentence.
Multiple exclamation points, question marks, or other redundant punctuation at the end of a sentence only makes the reader think you haven't developed your ideas enough to express your thoughts using actual words.
The next time you feel the need to use excessive exclamation points or question marks, perhaps you should try using Rebus (Pictograms for words, like you did back in elementary school) instead of paragraphs.
Here's an example of how you should probably start writing:
 | had a |  |
(Translation: I had a frontal lobotomy.)
As for me, I'm off to rip the exclamation point key off the keyboards of everyone in America. It's been abused too long, and I won't stand for it anymore!
