commenter

noun

com·​ment·​er ˈkä-ˌmen-tər 

variants or less commonly commentor

plural commenters also commentors

: one who comments

especially : one who leaves a comment on an Internet site, story, page, etc.

… every blogger and commenter and self-anointed pundit, could outperform any robot writer at a fraction of the cost.

—Paul Di Filippo

Many websites which allow users to leave comments … use a system called Captcha to check that the commenter is not a computer programme (or 'bot') leaving spam comments.

—Nick Poyntz

Examples of commenter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Conniving commenters suggested that the poster’s husband gives his coworker a fake recipe. —Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025

However, many commenters appeared to take the video at face value and criticized the girlfriend’s reaction. —Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025

While Cyrus reflected on her experience as an early figure in cancel culture, many of the post’s commenters pointed out that other female pop stars faced similar or even harsher backlash before her. —Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025

Yet, that didn’t stop commenters from weighing in with some intense criticism of the routine on display. —Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 1 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above