How about making unique view counts, instead of everytime someone looks at a post more than once the view count goes up. I, for example, would be more interested to see how many different people viewed a post rather than 3-4 people who each looked 10-12 times, each making a total of 30-40+ views. What do you think?
I agree. I think if view count is to be meaningful, it must show the true count of different people who have read the thread. I really don’t care for a thousand views of one thread if the same five people are just taking turns clicking on it.
Personally I think the normal view count is completely pointless. So people have looked at your post, so what, it’s only replies that make a topic useful. I’ll normally look at the number of replies rather then views.