There used to be a view counter on every post on Steemit, showing the number of views, can we bring that back?
I think there are a lot of things Steemit.com can do to make it desirable, one of which would be bringing back a view counter.
I believe there were issues with it being gamed in the past so it will need to be done in a way that it accurately reflects post views.
Steempeak does that on their interface:
(Source: https://steempeak.com/me/dashboard_
The only problem is that with multiple front ends, the view counter will likely only show the views on that particular interface.
Is there a way you can count at the blockchain level the number of views and have that number show up somewhere?
That would be the really helpful data...
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I'd like to see that come back, too, but one problem was that the low number of views was disheartening to content creators. I always assumed that the demotivational effect of low view counts is the reason that it was removed.
Borrowing from Twitter & LinkedIn, a second metric that could also be included and might be more motivating for content creators is the number of times that a post appears in someone's feed (i.e. "Impressions").
In principle, I think that multiple front-ends could all agree to implement a standard interface for sharing either of those metrics.
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Really? I thought it was the opposite. I remember having posts that had thousands of views... which actually seemed like more than they really had...
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I do remember something about artificially inflated numbers on some posts, too. That had slipped my mind.
The main thing I remember from viewing posts in my feed is tremendously low view numbers, though. I also remember that several high stakes voters were very critical of posts with very low numbers of views that received high-value payouts.
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Ah yes, I remember that as well. Dollar value per view was a thing for a bit there.
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