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[Mephansteras]

That bear trap looks decidedly unpleasant.

[coolio678]

That bear trap looks decidedly unpleasant.

It's just smiling at you, harmlessly inviting you to pry open those metal jaws.

[Chaoswizkid]

The "Traps" entry in the guidebook - not 100% finished, but has everything relevant to the next release:

... and only whispered about as the having caused the deaths ...

Not sure what you were trying to do there =P

... - either by tripwires, or pressure pads.

Comma unnecessary.

URR is still looking good. Keep up the good work!

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

That bear trap looks decidedly unpleasant.

Excellent.

It's just smiling at you, harmlessly inviting you to pry open those metal jaws.

At some later point I intend to add the ability to reset, pickup, alter/change/deactivate traps .

The "Traps" entry in the guidebook - not 100% finished, but has everything relevant to the next release:

... and only whispered about as the having caused the deaths ...

Not sure what you were trying to do there =P

... - either by tripwires, or pressure pads.

Comma unnecessary.

URR is still looking good. Keep up the good work!

Er. Nice find. And I like commas! You should read my academic work, I litter them with commas, in the most unnecessary, places.

[Chaoswizkid]

Er. Nice find. And I like commas! You should read my academic work, I litter them with commas, in the most unnecessary, places.

/wrists
Why do you do this.

[Mephansteras]

Er. Nice find. And I like commas! You should read my academic work, I litter them with commas, in the most unnecessary, places.

/wrists
Why do you do this.

They are a most subtle trap.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Er. Nice find. And I like commas! You should read my academic work, I litter them with commas, in the most unnecessary, places.

/wrists
Why do you do this.

They are a most subtle trap.

They really are. I don't know why I do it, but I always have. I'm getting better at not littering my works with commas these days, but only because my supervisor routines chastises me for it...

[coolio678]

I always used to throw commas into the most unneeded spots. Ones where they didn't seem super wrong, but they would grind the flow of what I was writing to a halt . It's gotten better recently.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

I always used to throw commas into the most unneeded spots. Ones where they didn't seem super wrong, but they would grind the flow of what I was writing to a halt . It's gotten better recently.

*Exactly* this. My academic writing has so much more punch when I'm able to stop myself using endless commas - it reads as if I'm actually confident making an assertion, whereas loads of commas makes it seem like I'm always qualifying what I'm saying and being very cautious about it...

[Putnam]

I don't use commas much, but I'm horrible with parentheticals and semicolons. My sentences end up running on. I've begun using footnotes instead of parentheses.

I should also start reading what I write so I don't say more than I need to.

[Edmus]

I find it sadly amusing that my English class focuses so much on analysing texts, that we have no idea how to use simple punctuation. <<Case in point, I don't even know what I've done wrong there.

[Willfor]

I find it sadly amusing that my English class focuses so much on analysing texts, that we have no idea how to use simple punctuation. <<Case in point, I don't even know what I've done wrong there.

It's just that one comma that you got wrong. The comma in your second sentence is correct.

I come from the fiction side of writing where it doesn't really matter if you're entirely correct in your comma usage in certain applications. It's an established convention to use commas as a single breathing pause in dialogue. It bleeds over into my own post writing where I subconsciously insert a comma at the natural breath point unless I stop myself.

[Putnam]

Never use commas unless they are entirely necessary. It makes reading a bit easier and prevents awkward pauses where you wouldn't expect them.

I'm going to write that now if I were to follow the opposite paradigm:

Never use commas, unless they are entirely necessary. It makes reading a bit easier, and prevents awkward pauses, where you wouldn't expect them.

Which one is easier to read?

[varsovie]

Never use commas unless they are entirely necessary. It makes reading a bit easier and prevents awkward pauses where you wouldn't expect them.

I'm going to write that now if I were to follow the opposite paradigm:

Never use commas, unless they are entirely necessary. It makes reading a bit easier, and prevents awkward pauses, where you wouldn't expect them.

Which one is easier to read?

This one.

Never use commas, unless they are entirely necessary. It makes reading a bit easier and prevents awkward pauses where you wouldn't expect them.

There's actual rules for when and where to use commas, like not before "and". In fact they can help reading (more so out loud) when they replace the comma and link to sentences togheter.

[Putnam]

The point was that the sentence I gave as an example shouldn't have commas at all. There are very few situations that they should be used in. Putting a comma before "unless" there is awkward.