I was seriously excited about GW and I was one of the volunteers and got involved at the very beginning. I am one of those people that had to shout loud and hard to get paid, I had projects taken away from me even as I was working on them without any notification other than to find somebody else had completed the tasks after I put alot of effort into them and went to post up information. I don’t feel I was treated fairly by the staff, and it left a really bad taste in my mouth with regard to a majority of the community there. They pushed the volunteers way past the point of no return, I work full time, requiring me to up and working online until after midnight night after night was not my idea of how things should be run. It was months before I finally got paid for part of the work I did. I chose not to press for any further reimbursement and have chalked it up to a lesson well learned. My passion for genealogy was stilled for awhile after this experience. I plan to close out my account there myself, it’s not a site I want to be associated with anymore.