punctuation: helpful tool, or harmful crutch?

I read this as "harmful crotch"

not my problem

!?

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what do you think?

cant live with it cant live without it am I right guys

in what sense would it be a crutch

who cares

i cant find the lonely toronto comma man thread :(

oh it was right there all along
lonely toronto comma man

Sample ILX post, minus punctuation:

i recently wrote a blog about types of behaviors that i can't stand it included the folks that think pushing a stroller makes them more priviledged people who hate to provide service who work in the service industry people who have abortions but vote pro-life people who drive large vehicles and perhaps some others this morning i would like to add to that list the type of people who are too scared to stand within three feet of the person in front of them making a line at the gas station go all the way out the door due to their refusal to scoot up closer to someone they don't know argh what are yours

Another example:

yes i know there are a lot of seattle threads but well just indulge me on this please i am thinking of moving there its kind of a whim right now and im all the way on the other side of the country so it wouldnt be an easy move but ive visited and liked it i really want to be somewhere with a good arts and music scene and i have a couple old college friends who live there i was going to go to washington dc but on second thought its so goddamned uptight i think id either be pissed off all the time or just give in and spend years obsessively focused on goals such as moving up the career ladder buying a condo and affording my first beamer or some shit all of which i dont actually care about so how is it how hard is it to find a decent job the problem is im not as free as i once was because of annoying student loans to pay off on top of everything else thats the real problem i cant wait tables or work in a record store and make enough to keep up those loan payments