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

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

One Reddit commenter summed up what many felt. —Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025

Many of our readers and commenters—even some Southerners—had never heard of it. —Josh Miller, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2025

At the time of writing, the post has received over 4,000 upvotes and hundreds of commenters who weighed in with their advice. —Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above