What do you call a person who leaves a comment on your blog?
By mjasmin
@mjasmin (178)
Micronesia
5 responses
@scarywhitegirl (2766)
• United States
2 Sep 07
Well, if they've left you a comment, you could probably safely assume that they are also reading your blog, so I guess you could call them a reader? A reader who left a comment? :) This is a pretty tricky one, but the fact that "blogger" has pretty much become a noun describing one who blogs, "commenter" or "commentor" may eventually come into regular usage as well. (As an aside, when I typed the first spelling into Firefox, it tells me that commenter is a word...)
@mjasmin (178)
• Micronesia
2 Sep 07
Well "reader" seems to suit a person who reads my blog at least occasionally. The person who left the comment is someone who just stopped by randomly and left a comment, he might never come back to my blog again. But I suppose he could qualify as a reader since he at least read the post he commented on...
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
3 Sep 07
There was a mini-debate once on a blog I read about the word "commenter" and one blogger who insisted they are "commentators". I don't really think commentators is right as they are not being interactive, as blog readers are when they leave a comment. I don't see anything wrong with using commenter as there are still spell checks that don't recognize the word "blog". The language changes with the times and there are always new words being added as technology moves along. Check your Websters from a few decades ago and there are lots of words you won't find there but that are commonly accepted today or newly coined to fit the needs of society and science.