I think there are ways to do that, honestly. I believe you can post through a third-party app too and if it is only counting views on Steemit.com (rather than something like busy, etc.) that would cause it. Not to mention, if it was just votes, you can vote via steemvoter without viewing the page. That said, it appears the article has updated, so it likely was/is a bug/scaling problem.
I think there are ways to do that, honestly. I believe you can post through a third-party app too and if it is only counting views on Steemit.com (rather than something like busy, etc.) that would cause it. Not to mention, if it was just votes, you can vote via steemvoter without viewing the page. That said, it appears the article has updated, so it likely was/is a bug/scaling problem.