Why does Yahoo complain when you use a lot of punctuation?

[ParisJackson]

"Whoa! You used a lot of punctuation. Try revising your question."
"Hmm...it looks like you have a lot of punctuation."

I was taught that the quality of punctuation is important. No one ever said that the number of parentheses and commas indicated good or bad usage of punctuation.

 

[Sarah]

If you over-use punctuation then it is grammatically wrong. There are tonnes of times people use specifically commas, but other punctuation as well, way too much. Yahoo is just letting you know that you are over-using punctuation and that it's grammatically wrong.

 

[AyeletGlick]

It just wants it to be more proffetional i think >>>>>>>>>...........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@@@@@@@@@@@

 

[givemestrength]

Don't worry too much about this. The software isn't fully up to the standard that it should be. And it cannot handle anybody doing a proper grammar job of answering.

One can over punctuate and put commas that's not necessary, but one won't learn unless they experiment, and read good written English. I deliberately puts lots hyphens and commas just to see what the response will be from the spell checker.

givemestrength

 

[JanetM1]

It's not Yahoo... just a silly auto system. Just click the "x" to close it.

 

[pastanaut]

I think their program is trying to discourage people from posting a bunch of links. You can just ignore the message, or click on the x in the upper right-hand corner of the message. That's what I do.