qualifier token a chosen word

engagement signal

What an engagement counter counts — units bought, people viewing now, times wishlisted, bestseller rank, shares, views. A qualifier of the engagement-counter property; the governed signal-type that makes the bare number meaningful, so a token from a growing vocabulary. The whole popularity-counter family collapses here: surface names are values, not forms. A 'trending' flag is presentation derived from these counts' velocity, not a counter of its own.

Engagement signal is answered with one word chosen from the engagement signals list — the same word shared across every product that uses it.

It is a qualifier of engagement counter — it has meaning only inside a engagement counter statement, one per statement, never on its own. It belongs with engagement counter to social proof — what buyers and critics say about it.

It is answered inside every engagement counter statement, not as a standalone question on a kind.

answered with: ◇token — a token — a word chosen from a fixed vocabulary, shared and filterable across products.
value domain: Engagement Signals — the vocabulary its answers are drawn from.
qualifier of: engagement counter — one per statement — it has meaning only inside that host's statement.

Answered inside every engagement counter statement — not a standalone slot on any kind.