Limits should also be placed on the comments posted to Olympian articles!

LTE published in the Trib:

LETTERS: Limit habitually angry writers to one letter per year

David O. Seal, Tacoma

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I realize The News Tribune has a policy of not publishing more than one letter per individual within 30 days in the print edition. For two individuals, you ought to modify this: Allow them one per year.

Why? Not because of their radically conservative content. Their topics may vary; but the emotion never does. One writer, from University Place, is always angry. Find one letter she's written that's not about her anger. Another recently published writer, from Gig Harbor, is worse. Sneering, caustic, acidic – he's always transmitting his contempt.

Anger and contempt have their places on the editorial page. But some people, addicted to public venting, are one-trick ponies. Furthermore, in this time of polarization, these emotions are easily viral. Let the occasionals and the first-timers have at them. But the habituals are using you. Stop enabling them.

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