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

Multiple commenters were still unable to see it, and were getting the same error, as did Fortune. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Video of the fast-food showdown has drawn millions of views, with commenters praising the former parkour instructor. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Riddance told Semafor that commenters regularly interacted with similar channels, and were likely largely real YouTube users. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Some commenters also spoke favorably of Recology Davis, including several Recology employees and a representative of the Davis Chamber of Commerce. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above