Re: When to use UserComments rather than Comment class?

Hello Martin,
http://schema.org/UserComments is derived from 
http://schema.org/UserInteraction and describes the action to perform a 
comment.

http://schema.org/Comment describes the comment itself. There are many 
overlapping properties here. I suggest to use http://schema.org/Comment 
in general. As you propably want to markup the comments on your website. 
I think Comment is newer than UserComments and has propably not been 
incorporated into Article yet.

http://schema.org/UserComments is used maybe by analytics tools to 
collect data when the user creates a comment.

Regards
Matthias Tylkowski

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Am 26.02.2014 18:35, schrieb Martin Kadlec:
> Hi,
> I'm looking into comments&microdata. I read the whole UserComments vs 
> Comment discussion from 2012. It is said there that 
> http://schema.org/Comment encodes the creative work by someone while 
> http://schema.org/UserComments encodes the action event of doing a 
> comment. Can anyone give me a real world example of when I would want 
> to use UserComments rather than Comment? Also the Article#comment 
> property (according to schema.org <http://schema.org>) refers to 
> UserComments rather than Comment which seems weird. Can I just 
> specifythe itemtype as Comment and use CreativeWork(/Comment) 
> itemprops instead?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin