Editorial: While We Wait, a Few Milestones

September 15, 2008 by Editor.

Here at SAGWatch, we’re wondering if the end of this year’s SAG election cycle will mean a moderation in the tone of the debate between Membership First and the rest of the world. If members haven’t sent their votes in at this point, they’re probably not going to get there on time. Somehow we doubt it, but we can always hope, right?In the meantime, it’s now just about three months since we went to the blog format, and just over a year since we launched the original SAGWatch site - though our posts didn’t really get going until December 2007.  In the past day or so we’ve crossed the 2000 mark on comments, and are delighted that more members on all sides of every issue seem to be offering their thoughts. We’ve regularly infuriated the folks at 5757 and at Membership First - a bonus in and of itself. We thank them for our nickname - as we’ve said, we didn’t even know our server was in Germany until they started riffing on it.The one belly flop so far seems to be our BBS. We’d thought that bbs.SAGWatch.net   would be appealing, since you don’t have to wait for one of us to get to the computer and approve comments…but that hasn’t caught on yet. We’ll leave it there anyway.Here at SAGWatch blog,  as of tonight the server has registered 239,549 page views in 114,100 unique visits. Not bad for a startup, and we’re taking it as a sign that this is all worthwhile.Still, we remind you that we can’t be everywhere. So we need your help in making this the complete source for independent observations of our unions. Your contributions are always welcome either in comments, BBS posts or by e-mail to editor@sagwatch.net.Here’s hoping Thursday’s election results herald an end to the hostilities between the factions and the unions, and mark the start of rebuilding the unity necessary if we’re all to succeed.

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