If you are looking for community, BellaOnline might be another place for you to consider writing. They do not pay residuals, but their training is excellent, and they allow you to keep 100% of any affiliate earnings you make. It’s a supportive womens community, and I don’t know from your ID whether you are one, but I believe they have male writers, as well.

Take care of yourself, LeavingeHow, and keep going, even when you don’t feel motivated.

And you are correct; many of us have been hurt, and the least eHow/Demand Media can do is show they are not made of stone by accepting our challenge to match our donations to Haiti.

eHow is a family to many. We all get along like siblings. At times, we will agree to not agree but we will never turn our backs on each other. We are tight writer’s community and we all care about each other.

All of the good about eHow changed when Rich our community manager announced that eHow took our articles to the UK, and that they were not going to compensate us, but the good news was that eHow decided to take the articles down within the next three weeks. eHow set the motion for the bickering between the community members, and the overall negative atmosphere.

eHow lied and cheated members out of their rightful compensation. I wonder will eHow step up to the plate to make a negative situation positive, I don’t know the answer I hope and pray that in time they will realize that they are in the wrong. For now, it pains me but I need to turn my back to eHow and I walked away.

The eHow that I loved has changed, there is not integrity or trust all that remains is Demand Media greed.

If anyone has the means or the voice to pass this blog post, and these comments onto influential people involved in eHow, NOW is the time to begin donating…..many of the teams they are sending over don’t even have aspirin (according to former president Bill Clinton, while asking for donations even as small as $5.00).

$5,000,000 could go a LONG way.

If the eHow members/eHow truly wanted to band together, NOW would be a great time to do it.

I will be monitoring their forum to see if someone has begun a thread about this. I’ll be issuing this same challenge to other sites I write for, as well.

Our brothers and sisters in Haiti are in pain beyond what most of us can even imagine. Maybe someone with an extra $5 or $5 million could lend a hand here…

Demand Media: will you match eHow community members’ contributions to Wyclef Jean’s Yele Organization for Haiti relief if an eHow community campaign is launched on your forums? How about it? Come on. Show us what you’re made of.

In wake of the Haiti catastrophe, I do think it is important that we step back, reevaluate things, and cherish the good in whatever situations we are faced with. This is expected with any horrific catastrophe, and definitely reflects that we are still human.

Hardly a day went by when I was stationed in Afghanistan, where a maimed child didn’t straggle through the main gate, yet another victim of an unexpected mine strike. It’s events like this that soften the heart, and I completely agree, we should all try to help out where we can…..with millions in monthly revenue, it would be great to see Demand Media/eHow take the lead with this, in some way, shape or form…..

We can debate their terms of service to no end, but, the fact is, eHow’s UK website has been earning for nearly 6 months, while also directly competing with writer’s original articles in the search engines. I know my words will probably fall on deaf ears, however, it would be very nice (and welcomed) if they would divert some of those earnings towards Haiti relief.

Perhaps if the eHow community banded together, they could begin a grassroots movement to convince eHow to contribute to the victims of Haiti?