In days of yore, my father was an English teacher. His favorite saying
regarding punctuation was "When you are in doubt, leave the comma out.
If you don't give a damn, anywhere a comma slam." And a fine poet he was.
mahalo,
jo4hn

Charlie Self wrote:

Silvan writes:

[snip]
Another pet peeve: excess punctuation, especially exclamation points which are
properly used almost never.

Charlie Self