9rules Update

This isn’t of too much interest to most people, but I’ve got updates about what is going on at 9rules, haha!

Perhaps some of you remember the dorama that cropped up when 9rules stuck in a new clause in their member agreement requiring all members to participate on the Notes. Well, it seems like the whole thing was a big 4 month experiment in features to seed a new social site.

If you have been around 9rules since the beginning, then you remember when it was composed of Member sites and that was it. You came to 9rules to see what the good content writers were talking about and you probably found some new sites you never would have come across. To make a long story short that 9rules is coming back. Soon Notes, Clips and my.9r will be gone from 9rules.com and nothing will be left, but the great 9rules Member content that got us to where we are today.

Thank goodness, and now the leaf can go back to being the great badge of elitism that it was before =D. The anime section of 9rules is just sad, quite frankly, and there are like 4 of us left that actually post about anime. There was so little benefit to being a part of the anime section because:

1. The redesign greatly increased the number of clicks required to find entries from members in a specific category (e.g. anime).
2. No one gets any hits from 9rules for being a member, because so many members left and the site was so hard to use.
3. No one likes a forced community, and the quality/quantity of the discussions really reflected that. I think every single “clip” is from the same magazine that is spamming up the clip section.

Anyway, to make a long story short, all the “other stuff” is getting spun off, and the “new” 9rules will no longer have any socializing requirements.

Related posts:

1. 9rules Round: May 7, 2008
2. Original Seven
3. 9rules Round 7