This is a welcome post. As an English teacher, I can share these thoughts about exclamation points. 1, The "rule" in the stylebooks is "one or three"--not 2 or 4 or more. However, that's arbitrary, so HST, 2, There is no real "rule" about this kind of thing, except--Use common sense, which means, as you said, use exclamation points sparingly, and then, if you must, one is plenty!
This is a welcome post. As an English teacher, I can share these thoughts about exclamation points. 1, The "rule" in the stylebooks is "one or three"--not 2 or 4 or more. However, that's arbitrary, so HST, 2, There is no real "rule" about this kind of thing, except--Use common sense, which means, as you said, use exclamation points sparingly, and then, if you must, one is plenty!
Common sense goes a long way with things like these! (Note use of one exclamation point...)