commenter

noun

com·​ment·​er ˈkä-ˌmen-tər How to pronounce commenter (audio)
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 In doing so, Ratcliffe was acting like an American, as one commenter put it, responding to a BBC article. Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 4 May 2024 Over on Reddit, a commenter posted that their $7,000 project is also in limbo since Tesla needs to fix the software, but no one is responding. Umar Shakir, The Verge, 3 May 2024 Before long, the random commenter apologized for his harsh words. Meaghan Garvey, Billboard, 2 May 2024 Other commenters on social media also raised safety concerns. Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024 Her retelling of the incident later caused a buzz on Reddit as commenters immediately jumped to the conclusion that someone might be living in her house without her knowing. Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024 While the photos of the affair look lovely, somehow a few commenters found an aspect of the new mom’s appearance to attack. Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 May 2024 The look is so convincing that some commenters under Kamara’s video labeled this technique, which works best with boho braids, the fakeout. Annie Blay, Allure, 16 Apr. 2024 Brett Goldstein, 33, a founder of an artificial intelligence company who made the viral post about the virtual workers, said some commenters had described the model as dystopian while many others had been intrigued. Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of commenter was in the 14th century

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“Commenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commenter. Accessed 9 May. 2024.

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