Three million comments for the Guardian

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Guardian Unlimited will later this month claim the three millionth comment left on one of its blogs, said its editorial director.

Neil McIntosh told an AOP seminar today in London that, in March this year, users of Guardian Unlimited left 250,000 comments and that sometime later this month the total accumulated number is expected to pass the three million mark.

"We have done things to make us technically more robust so users have a better experience, but also I think we are getting better at provoking debate and getting better at tending that debate," he later told Journalism.co.uk.

He added that the blogs section of the website was growing at an even faster rate than the expanding network.

"The network itself is showing huge growth… but what we are seeing is very steady [growth for blogs]; it's usually 1 per cent here, then another per cent another month. We are seeing it climb towards 10 per cent of the network total," he said.

"It's small beer compared to the whole thing but actually if you look at it as what is the contribution of blogs against other established bits of the site, it's actually making a really important contribution. It seems to be growing faster than the rest of the network."