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

One commenter, @bernicabrera, offered a broader critique. —Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025

What was clearly intended as a loving tribute to a beloved fellow English music legend turned sour last week when Rod Stewart’s homage to late heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne drew rebuke from some commenters. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2025

While one commenter argued that Vanessa was right not to want to travel just months after giving birth, the majority of commenters agreed that the OP and Lisa shouldn’t have to sacrifice time on their trip to drive to the airport. —Latoya Gayle, People.com, 3 Aug. 2025

On Reddit, people were split over the sticky situation, though most of the commenters took the teen's side. —Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above