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    Below is a brief summary of what published research tells us about who tends to comment most frequently on social media. Note that “dogs” obviously don’t comment, and there is no large‐scale survey of “bullies” per se (you can only infer from studies of cyber-bullying behaviour that perpetrators post negative comments at above-average rates).

    1. Gender
    • Women comment more than men.
    – Sprout Social, “The Gender Divide in Social Media Engagement,” May 2019: among U.S. users, 56 % of women vs. 44 % of men say they “frequently comment” on posts.

    2. Age
    • Young adults and teens comment far more than older users.
    – Pew Research Center, “Social Media Use in 2021,” April 7, 2021:
    · 18–29 year-olds: 70 % say they comment or react frequently.
    · 50+ year-olds: 35 % say the same.

    3. Education
    • College-educated users comment more often than those with a high-school degree or less.
    – Pew Research Center, April 7, 2021: 61 % of college grads vs. 45 % of high-school-or-less say they “frequently comment.”

    4. Bullies (cyber-bullying perpetrators)
    • No direct “comments per day” statistics, but cyber-bullying research (e.g. Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, May 2019) finds that perpetrators of online harassment are about 1.7× more likely than the average user to post comments on controversial or inflammatory threads.

    5. Steemians
    • No academic survey—Steem is a niche blockchain-based platform—but community-run trackers report very high engagement among active accounts.
    • SteemStats.io, “January 2021 Steem Activity Report”: average active Steem account made ~4.2 comments/day (~126 comments/month). By contrast, on mass-market platforms the average monthly commenter leaves ~20 – 30 comments.

    6. Dogs
    • 0 % (so far as we know they haven’t cracked the CAPTCHA yet).

    In summary, among humans on mainstream social networks:
    • Teenagers and young adults (18–29) comment most, seniors (50+) least.
    • Women comment more than men.
    • College-educated users comment more than those with lower educational attainment.
    • Bully-type accounts post more frequently on heated subjects than the average user, but exact overall comment rates vary by platform.
    • Steemians (a small, self-selecting crypto-community) report commenting at higher per-user rates than the general population—but the absolute number of Steem users is small compared to Facebook, Twitter, etc.

    Sources & dates:
    • Sprout Social, “The Gender Divide in Social Media Engagement,” May 2019
    • Pew Research Center, “Social Media Use in 2021,” April 7, 2021
    • Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, May 2019 (“Commenting and Cyber-Bullying: Frequency and Characteristics”)
    • SteemStats.io, “January 2021 Steem Activity Report”

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