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qualified host number + unit a measured amount

engagement counter

A popularity or interaction counter a storefront shows — a numeral on the generic counting dimension. Cardinality many (one statement per signal). A self-correlating bundle: the count travels with the signal it measures, the time window it covers, and (for a rank) the category it is ranked within. The pool declares the shape; the realised numbers are the data layer's instances (L1). The badges rendered over a rank or sales count (Best Seller, Amazon's Choice) are presentation — a separate, out-of-scope merchandising form.

Engagement counter is a measured figure, given as a whole count of selling units.

It belongs to social proof — what buyers and critics say about it.

the bundle what travels with each engagement counter

A engagement counter is not a lone value — each statement is a self-correlating bundle, carrying its own:

asked by the kinds that answer it

49 kinds answer it, each for any number of values. The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.

answered with
number + unit — a number paired with a unit drawn from an exhaustive unit vocabulary.
value domain
Quantity Units — the vocabulary its answers are drawn from.
concern
Social proof — the facet of a product it belongs to.
qualifiers
engagement signal (one) · engagement window (one) · engagement rank category (one) — the bundle each statement carries.

asked by kinds that answer it

The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.

kindhow many
Product many