I'm struggling here.  I lurked for a couple weeks, got a feel for things, made a diary entry and got it deleted.  Gradually, I saw the points from which people were arguing, how they were arguing, and what the popular motifs for comments and diary entries were.  I did my best to become the best little 
Adequacy Bot I could be.  People were starting to write well-thought-out responses to my comments.  I even hit a gold mine: I spawned a 
large thread with little relavance toward my original comment, and even some biblical prooftexting.  Yet there is a problem.