Comment Bait 

Posting a status update on a social networking site that's specific to a certain person in hopes of enticing them to interact with you by leaving a comment. See also: Obsessive, Needy, Pathetic

Public knowledge: I love Elvis, donuts and extreme heat.

Comment Bait Ex. 1
Facebook Creeper's Status: "Who wants to join me for the TCM Elvis Movie Marathon this weekend?! :)" (Has only ever heard of 2 Elvis movies in his life.)

Comment Bait Ex. 2
Twitter Creeper's Status: "I've got a whole box of donuts all to myself - Yum! But I might be willing to share... ;)" (Doesn't even like donuts.)

Comment Bait Ex. 3
Myspace Creeper's Status: "It's 102 degrees out!! Let's go to the beach! :D" (Actually kind of hopes I won't comment on this one because he'd rather stab himself in the eye with a spork than go out in this sweltering heat.)

Comment Bait by Danie Sue November 30, 2011

comment bait 

a shameful tactic that content creators use to get mindless NPC's to comment on their videos. The content will usually have zero context, contain blatant lies or something they pulled straight out of their ass to invoke controversy. The more comments they receive, the better the chances are of the video going viral. Similar to clickbait and rage bait except the goal is to confuse the viewers into getting them to interact with each other. avoid.

B: "this guy really posting saying he is god and was reincarnated in china. he also has gta 7.
A: "bro, that shit is obv comment bait. gtfoh."
B: "you right, he ain't worth my time."

comment bait by AllBlackLex August 21, 2024

commentraitor 

Noun

A broadcaster who uses the airwaves (usually Fox News Network or AM radio), or blogger who uses the internet, to spread anti-government disinformation.

Favorite targets are our "foreign-born Islamic halfrican-american" President, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senators Reid and Boxer, and most democrat (sic, not "Democratic") officials. 'Activist' judges are also targeted -- the laws should remain as written in 1776.

Some commentraitors even urge '2nd Amendment' solutions. Others are content to use their white-supremicist-neochristian-xenophobic rhetoric to incite their ditto-heads to throw out all incumbents, or to act-out at public hearings, or to march around in camo gear with firearms and threatening expressions.

While most of their listeners are willig, echoing rather than forming 'opinions', commentraiters are more often shrewd broadcasters unrestrained by any need/desire to be 'truthy' (thx Stephen Colbert). A commentraitors object is not to inform, but to reap financial benefits by selling to their sheeple whatever the bleating (m)asses are easily convinced to want.

Current commentraitors Rush Limppaw, Shmen Dreck, Oh Riley, and Ann Poltergeist make me afraid, VERY afraid. I don't believe ANYthing they say, but a seemingly growing number of listeners believes EVERYthing they say, without thought or doubt. And those listeners are armed!

commentraitor by Kriticalthinker July 6, 2010

Commentbait

A form of commentpost specifically designed to generate more comments—controversial opinions, inflammatory statements, deliberately ignorant questions, or "hot takes" crafted to provoke outrage and engagement. Commentbait is the engine of platform engagement metrics: the more comments, the more the algorithm promotes the post, the more comments it generates. Commentbaiters don't care what you say, as long as you say something. They're not trying to convince or communicate; they're trying to capture attention, generate metrics, and feed the machine. Every "unpopular opinion" thread, every "am I the only one who..." post, every deliberately wrong answer on a help forum—commentbait, all of it. The commentbaiter has learned that engagement is its own reward, and that the best way to get engagement is to make people angry enough to type.

Example: "The post was simple: 'The earth is actually flat and here's why.' No evidence, no argument, just a claim designed to trigger. And trigger it did—thousands of comments, millions of views, days of engagement. The poster never responded to any of it. They didn't need to. Commentbait had worked: the algorithm loved it, the platform promoted it, and the poster walked away with the only currency that matters—attention."

Commentbait by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026