Each member is hand-picked out of thousands that apply to join, their blogs evaluated over an extended period of time with regard to quality.

9rules remained open for submissions until April 17, 2007 when the round was officially closed with a public announcement.

[6] On October 9, 2007, 9rules launched a new version of its site code-named Ali2[7] which introduced several new features to their public member forums.

This included a visual redesign, social bookmarking system and improved capabilities for user profiles to showcase feeds from external sites such as Flickr, Del.icio.us and Twitter.

9rules proper will only feature member content, as it did before Ali, whereas the community will transfer to a new site set up by the owners, called Chawlk.