Well I started here in November 2015, SO THERE! No partner program then. We wrote for love.
I got a take down order for an article I wrote about anti-vaxers. It was called "An Open Letter to the People Who Won’t Be Vaccinated" and the subtitle was "Die." You get the idea. Too bad though, it took off like a rocket due to hate reads. Lots of interesting and moronic comments. Later I published a sanitized version. It got all of 114 views.