Hint for slackers:
If you want to benefit from the glory, riches, and inexplicable sexual attractiveness that using a semicolon brings, but are too lazy to figure out where to put it, here's a sure-fire formula:
generalisation; however, exception.
For example: I never upvote stupid writeups; however, this writeup is strong in the force.
Try it! Impress your friends! Enjoy your newfound intellectual elitism!