Analyzing 101.5 million pull-request comments from 2,828 GitHub projects, this study reports that profanity dominates toxicity, that popularity and gaming domains associate with more toxicity, and that past toxic commenters tend to repeat and receive toxicity.
In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems
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The Landscape of Toxicity: An Empirical Investigation of Toxicity on GitHub
Analyzing 101.5 million pull-request comments from 2,828 GitHub projects, this study reports that profanity dominates toxicity, that popularity and gaming domains associate with more toxicity, and that past toxic commenters tend to repeat and receive toxicity.