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

The vast majority of commenters sided with the poster, encouraging her to break up with her boyfriend. —Nicki Cox, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025

Most commenters seemed to support Heyman's reaction to the fan putting their hands on him. —Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025

Many commenters also noted that the situation could have been much worse with the coffee shop, with Thanksgiving being one of the few nights that the business did not host live music. —Devan Patel, Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2025

According to Matty, Phil is still alive — something a commenter wondered a few weeks back — but incapacitated. —Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above