Negativity. Fear. It sells newspapers. It excites people to action and it sure as hell generates comments. For example, my entry reflecting on a certain resentment drew numerous comments, yet my hopefully constructive entry about some aspects on how to make a mosque a welcoming place to all ethnicities got hardly a peep? Negativity attracts like a light pulls in the moths. But, is negative reinforcement a viable way to build a blog, build or rebuild a community? While a few positive and/or constructive comments get by, it seems that most responses are by those who disagree which i think applies to many Muslim-ish blogs. While disagreements can become fertile grounds for learning, usually they devolve into agitprop festivals which can have no real solution: each participant is doomed by thier egotisitical urge to impose thier view. Don't worry because I know that you know that is takes one to know one… Thus, this is as much introspection as it is a request.