Punctuation Usage Debates

Users discuss and complain about the lack, misuse, or stylistic choices in punctuation, such as periods, spaces after sentences, quotation marks placement, and grammar in Hacker News comments and posts.

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ICQ IM FWIW ASCII MLA CMS IRC OT wikipedia.org punctuation sentence period spaces marks sentences periods end style quote

Sample Comments

GotAnyMegadeth Nov 5, 2012 View on HN

Interesting use of punctuation here...

scarmig Dec 1, 2016 View on HN

One of those times where a sarcasm punctuation would be useful.

ssivark Jul 20, 2018 View on HN

Isn’t this the point of punctuation?

AnimalMuppet Nov 5, 2018 View on HN

Wow. Feel free to use some punctuation here and there. That's annoying to parse as written.

drewrv Jul 11, 2018 View on HN

Why can't we just use two punctuation marks?!

eric_cc Dec 15, 2019 View on HN

Not a fan of using periods at the end of sentences?

dylan604 Apr 3, 2023 View on HN

oh gawd, next you're going to tell me that we no longer need 2 spaces at the end of a sentence after punctuation.

conceit Mar 2, 2016 View on HN

I don't see punctuation, only decoration

bprater Aug 12, 2008 View on HN

Correct grammar and punctuation please.

JdeBP Aug 9, 2018 View on HN

Lack of punctuation is not the same as lack of spaces, though.