Why bring them back if you can?

1) You save months of people learning how to work together. Paul and Tyme already know how to work together. They are a veteran team who can jump in and get to work.
2) Paul is like Jesus to websites. He can resurrect your dead sites into good ones. He can come up with a plan to fix all of your sites.
3) The person fixing the mess can’t be the one who works with the people. Everyone knows that. That is why companies have Human Resource departments. Tyme is like the Egyptian goddess Isis or the Battlestar Gallactica Cylon-Human hybrid character who used her powers to heal people. She takes care of everyone and is better than Human Resources.
4) Who better than Tyme to work with your bloggers to write better? Isn’t that what she did with people who were rejected from 9rules? Who else can turn around the crappy blogs you allowed in 9rules from the last round? A blogger serious about their writing wouldn’t want to pass up that opportunity.
5) Paul has balls just like Jesus. He isn’t afraid to do something different.
6) None of your bloggers can legitimately complain about Paul and Tyme being placed over them as they are more qualified. Your company doesn’t seem to have a place for your writers to go or anyone managing them (Human Resources).
6) No ego clash. Paul loves being the spotlight, Tyme doesn’t want it. Paul likes to run things, Tyme can but prefers not to. If one of them gets sick, the other can fill in. Paul wouldn’t have to worry about anyone being after his job or vice versa.
7) It would be a coo to get them back if you can. It would make people happy, relieved and curious what comes next.

Perhaps you do not care and like collecting sites. If you care about your readers and your writers you will do what is best for your company. I’d like to see strong arguments against asking Paul and Tyme to return. Don’t assume they won’t come back. For us that still want to believe in the sites we like, ask them. It is one thing if you make Paul and Tyme a reasonable offer and they turn it down (you tried your best and you can show your staff and community that) but if you neglect to make them both a reasonable offer, and do not find replacements that work better than them, it will show your lack of dedication to your company. People loved 9rules so much they tattooed the logo on their bodies. You owe them this. Other than Paul and Tyme I can’t think of anyone else as qualified. The B5media man left but he didn’t run the company well from what I read. The Weblogs people have their own projects in full swing.

I guess I’m about to find out if you delete or moderate the bad comments. If you do, Paul would call you a p-u-s-s-y. Tyme would shake her head at your weakness to accept negative criticism.

When will have another selection?

Could you please detail the criterion your consider?

I ask because I was awared “Top 200 health blogger” for the healthy eating category of WellSphere (out of 3000 bloggers) and I’d love to be part of the 9rules family.

Thanks for letting me know more.

Krizia

I’m very pleased to be part of your wonderful community !

See you soon 9 rules

He’s also got a new blog over at http://www.ClearTypeMedia.com regarding government web standards and design.

You did have six days notice about this — the first announcement was posted on 25th September. Still, I presume you won’t be bothering to subscribe to the RSS feed to find out about future rounds because you don’t want to be part of the community anyway.