Toxic comment percentage: 4.7
Wired Magazine and online comment platform Disqus studied comments from Disqus’ 7,000-plus forums to determine which states produced the largest percentage of toxic comments.
Of the Disqus comments coming from New Hampshire, 4.7 percent were considered over-the-top, conversation-flaming trollery.
Toxic comment percentage: 5.2
Of all commenters in this study, 25 percent made at least one toxic comment, but at just 5.2 percent toxicity, those trolls were mostly outside of Oklahoma.
Toxic comment percentage: 5.3
The study even allowed for a certain amount of negativity. It is the internet, after all. Comments that were mean or sarcastic but ostensibly on-topic were not counted among the truly toxic.
Toxic comment percentage: 5.4
Toxic comment percentage: 5.5
Remember this snickering canine that laughed at your failure to shoot down digital waterfowl? He taught a generation of gamers how to troll.
Toxic comment percentage: 5.6
Toxic comment percentage: 5.7
Toxic comment percentage: 5.8
Toxic comment percentage: 5.9
Kentucky native Jennifer Lawrence has strong opinions on internet trolls. In 2014, her phone was hacked, and nude photos and video were posted online for the anonymous masses to comment. She’s repeated her unwillingness to engage with the internet in many interviews since.
Toxic comment percentage: 6
Toxic comment percentage: 6.1
Toxic comment percentage: 6.3
Toxic comment percentage: 6.4
Toxic comment percentage: 6.5
Toxic comment percentage: 6.6
Toxic comment percentage: 6.8
Toxic comment percentage: 6.9
Toxic comment percentage: 7
Toxic comment percentage: 7.1
We’re curious how many of these toxic comments are related to college basketball.
Toxic comment percentage: 7.2
Toxic comment percentage: 7.3
Toxic comment percentage: 7.4
Toxic comment percentage: 7.5
One topic that often brings the comment trolls out of the woodwork is feminism.
Toxic comment percentage: 7.7
Toxic comment percentage: 7.9
Toxic comment percentage: 8
Toxic comment percentage: 8.1
Toxic comment percentage: 8.2
Chicago suburb Park Forest produces the highest percentage of toxic comments of any city in the United States at a whopping 34 percent. But almost all of those comments are written by just two authors.
Toxic comment percentage: 8.3
A federal judge revoked bail for former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli as he awaited sentencing for fraud. Prosecutors argued that Shkreli harassed women online and that he offered his Facebook followers $5,000 to produce a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair. Shkreli apologized in writing, saying he didn’t expect anyone would take his comments seriously.
Toxic comment percentage: 8.6
Toxic comment percentage: 8.8
Toxic comment percentage: 9.5
While Georgia, as a state, is among the top 10 trolliest, Sharpsburg produces the lowest percentage of toxic comments of any city in the country.
Toxic comment percentage: 9.8
Toxic comment percentage: 10.1
Toxic comment percentage: 10.3
Toxic comment percentage: 12.2
Vermont has the smallest population in the United States, but it also has the largest percentage of toxic comments.
