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Given how relevant forums and discussion spaces are. One would think there would be some standardized structure for it so you can search for comments or posts with criteria all over the internet.



There are 'standards' (and an XKCD comic) for that. See schema.org for example.

Google does use it, last time I used it there was even tooling for it in the 'check how my site is to crawl' console, whatever it's called.


https://schema.org/upvoteCount

Yet I haven't seen even one instance of this anywhere. :(


BRB, need to put `upvoteCount="10000000"` on all my blog articles. :)




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