The sibling comment to yours links to the study of users from /r/fatpeoplehate and what happened to them. Short version: most of them stayed, and behaved bette

The sibling comment to yours links to the study of users from /r/fatpeoplehate and what happened to them. Short version: most of them stayed, and behaved better in better moderated subreddits. The implied conclusion is that a very significant part of noxious community behaviour is situational.