Hi,
I have a presence here. I went to Hubpages after it got better. There was animosity against those of us from Squidoo by some people on Hubpages. That subsided. Here you will find more ability to monitize with ads, amazon, Zazzle, and ebay. For some time my amazon modules and ebawy modules were broken, and my ads accumulated income slowly, so I wrote more on Hubpages. Now the traffic here is better. Just get your own accounts. Hubpages had a shared account. Once you have 100 articles the split goes to 60 percent for you. Their account alternates with yours and you never know if a click will be in the 60% of the time your id is associated with the module.
The people here are friendly, and many have long strings of comments. HP, I believe it is 1 per 400 words.
I had 102 articles of HP. I have over 400 here. I am in the process of moving about 14 to my website, and have started moving others here. I am cutting and pasting the text modules, and redoing the affiliate modules. My guess is some product I had on affiliates have become obsolete.
Welcome back. I believe I remember you from Squidoo. A few of us Squids are here.
Here we have comment sections, and you can make friend. there, I recommend you follow Frank (above), Veronica, and Patel. They post quality articles often.