New study analyzes 500 million messages over three decades to better understand bad behavior on the internet. The analyzed platforms from which messages in English come are Facebook, Gab, Reddit, Telegram, Twitter, YouTube, Usenet (a forum created in 1979) and Voat (an American news aggregator) The authors have defined toxicity as “a rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that could cause someone to leave a discussion” Toxicity does not scare away users from a network.