We’re one to talk but, when it comes to new neighborhood Web sites, there maybe ought to be a moratorium on linking to them until they’ve been around for a few weeks. Kind of like an editorial policy where you don’t review a restaurant in first three months or something. But Monday’s Slog post about the Your Real Capitol Hill site did give the Stranger crew an opportunity to compare and contrast the “Real” effort with the Chamber of Commerce-backed YourCapitolHill site.

The only thing the Slog forgot to mention is that the Your Real Capitol Hill was started only three days ago on Friday the 13th and has all of three posts to its name.

Oh, they also left out one more thing. The Stranger — like CHS — has accepted advertising money from Sound Transit to promote the YourCapitolHill site. You’ll see ads here for the Chamber-driven site soon.

But, back to the point at hand, Your Real Capitol Hill clearly has some more work to do. If it sticks around, it can join efforts like the People’s Parking Lot and captothehill in telling all the stories of Capitol Hill. Maybe there can be more to it than even those efforts have achieved. Or not. We’d like to have more to link to and more eyes watching Capitol Hill. YRCH is off to a fine start. Looking forward to what comes next before it’s time to take the “real” part too seriously, though.

UPDATE: In response to tstr in comments, via West Seattle Blog from the West Seattle Target: