Ask: Gamespy helpers and other Community Features

A few years ago (6 maybe) I was very a active player of Age of Empire using gamespy. It was great, and among the many things I liked there were the Game Helpers. These guys were players, much like myself, that the Gamespy team approached and offered them to join their team of Administrator and moderator, as volunteers of course. Read more about this here: http://www.gamespyvolunteers.com/app.html

I can't seem to find much information about this initiative of Gamespy, so:

First question, does any of you remember this? Was any of you a helper, or volunteer of some sort?

Second question, do you know of any other initiative similar to that of gamespy on other platforms? Would you join this?

I am building a simple MMOG based on html5 and I am trying to apply these features which made my stay back on Gamespy the great fun it was.