I notice lately a significant proportion of the people who comment on my stories are male and over 60.
Does anybody have a different commenting age group.
Hmm. Never really looked that closely at my commenters' profiles save the ones I know fairly well. I seem to get a fair mix of men and women on mine but no idea about age. Might vary with category, too. I suspect my gay stories would get more male eyes, for instance.
My comments seem to be split about evenly between men and women, maybe slightly tilted towards the men. This may be because I tend to write stories of < 2000 words, most well shy of that number. Quick, dirty and slutty. shrugging Maybe my writing is just good wank material.
As to age, of those commenters with whom I am familiar, age runs the gamut from 20's to 70's.
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The majority that comment on mine are men, I would guess 35 to 55 range.
I had to check when I saw this post Megan.
On my last story, the winter competition one, the comments break about 30 women and 25 men. Which is kind of what I expected from my past stories, more women commenting that men. And while I haven't done the analysis, I think the average age of the men would be higher that the women commenting. What I love most of all about the comments is that 80 percent of them are from writers whose work I have read.
I've never really looked at it closely to determine. I have noticed that I do get comments from both men and women who seem to really enjoy my stories. I'll have to do a more details observation now as you piqued my interest.