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RE: The trouble with view counters
Look cricket I need my google analytics and I need them now. I’m addicted to that stuff you see. It makes the world go round. Enough of it and you can kill a bear or climb a mountain!
Explaining to an outsider that I’m trying to get review keys for the gamers when their metrics are shared as X amount of Vests is just not going work.
At least some people can live with the fact that most of the followers they have are a lie! Just bots trying farm out those f4f game to who knows what ends.
Yeah, it is sort of difficult to translate Steem's metrics into something people, especially business people, are more used to. The view counter was an attempt at doing that, but unfortunately, it was failing miserably.
"Impressions" as a metric for advertisers and such is just a bad idea. They can run as many heuristics as they'd like to try and filter out rogue data, but it will be a cat-and-mouse game until the end of time.
If you absolutely need a view counter, you can always put one on your WordPress blog and publish to the blockchain using @steempress. Then just go ahead and "view" it as many times as you wish. This will be approximately as effective as the view counter we used to have here.