It's silly to remove it. Analytics and page views is one of the most important aspects in the modern age for a content creator
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It's silly to remove it. Analytics and page views is one of the most important aspects in the modern age for a content creator
Indeed, on FB it works, on YT it works. Why not on Steemit? It is essential.
Now only thing you can see is how many bots have voted or flagged a post.
Well if it is not an accurate representation of actual views, how does that help?
99% of the time it will.
How? If your post actually got 5,000 views on another UI, but only 10 people opened it on steemit.com - wouldn't it be really disheartening if it showed you that you only got 10 views?
Different UIs can have different systems
Yes, but the problem is that the community is split across so many different UIs, and a UI can only count the views on it's own platform. Someone may be posting from steemit.com, but their primary audience may be on busy.org. Stuff like this prevents a "counter" system from working effectively. The decentralized nature of the blockchain makes it a lot different than counting views on platforms like Facebook, YouTube, etc. where everyone views the content from the same website.