One way you could test this is to datamine Google's or Microsoft's usenet archive. You could track if users behaved in less social ways in more troll-tolerant n

One way you could test this is to datamine Google's or Microsoft's usenet archive. You could track if users behaved in less social ways in more troll-tolerant newsgroup (i.e. track say a million users and compare their behaviour across different newsgroups). It could also be done across time for individual newsgroups to remove any bias inherent in the topic of the group.