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

More than 110,000 people have watched that video so far, and to this day, a stray commenter still occasionally sees fit to leave a snide remark. —Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025

Several viewers said the sketch needed more work to make the jokes funny, while other YouTube commenters complained about Italians being mocked. —Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025

Some commenters lamented not being in the city; many more marvelled at the high prices for pieces like simple black sweaters. —Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2025

Some commenters speculated that the pup might not actually be a service dog, suggesting the owner may have simply bought the vest. —Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above