Finally, we have a counter for the unique views that a blog post gets. Well done, I have personally suggested this in the past.
What's going to be interesting in the next few days is skimming through the posts on the Trending page to see how many times they were actually opened by readers.
My theory is that the view counts for posts on Steemit will be pretty low, and most of the upvotes on posts come from people who just upvote based on headline, reputation, author, etc. without even opening the post.
But I like the feature a lot, I'm sure it will add value to Steemit - and moreover offers a tool to study the existing value of Steemit.
We also got an icon for "100% Power Up" posts, so I decided to check it out.
Here's the post in case you you missed it.
For me, views and good commentary are much more valuable than a huge amount of upvotes. Therefore I think there should be an incentive to encourage actually reading the stuff before upvoting, or to discourage mindless upvoting more. I have no idea how to implement those, but one idea that comes to mind would be to have the ability to upvote until you've opened the post; you could still see the potential payout and the number of votes in your feed. Though this will likely decrease the total amount of upvotes as it would be less convenient than now, I would argue it will keep "the game" more open and sincere.
I may be wrong here, but I've noticed YouTube doesn't register your like if you press the like button before you have watched the video a certain amount of time.
But besides, what's the point of giving an upvote when you're not fishing for curation rewards? Yes, you're give support to an author but have you really appreciated what the author has written?
Comments are good, but it can be annoying to see someone with a huge SP wallet give you a nice comment and skip the upvote.
One of the features of Steemit is the potential reward for contribution to the platform.
While that should not be the only reward (as you said, it is nice to get positive comments as well), a high payout upvote retains contributors.
So we have a balance that I don't see a useful mechanism to maintain: rewarding quality work balanced against curation reward strategies. And we can't discount the draw of curation rewards to investors.
So it does come down to responsible curation by the folks with the fat wallets. If you see something good, upvote it. You can't control the behavior of other curators, and if you try to do that and that results in their reward strategy becoming less efficient, you face the possibility they take their investment out of the platform.
Good point, I also can't wait to see these numbers, I know there is a lot of bot and hive like activity on this site.
This post has 186 upvotes and 9 views at the moment. It's a good post and I upvoted it but it's obvious that it's just being upvoted based on speculation.
Bots and autovotes I believe got into this more than upvotes by headline.
I agree and I like coffee too.
Coffee is great, and I also like Doge.
Thanks for sharing. The latest updates are AWESOME..!! Following and upvoted as always.
I recently made a blog that your followers may have missed and would like to see.
The scalability of Steem and Steemit is simply mind blowing..!!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@stephenkendal/the-scalability-of-steem-and-steemit-is-simply-mind-blowing
Thanks again for sharing your blog. Stephen
Yes, I upvoted. You are possibly right, we might see STEEM being used for bigger projects and, like you said, scaled further.
We'll have to wait and see.
But I think what I bring up in this post is a problem that could potentially drive people away from Steemit: the fact that a big portion of people doesn't consume the content, but rather just treats it as a game.
I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing, I'm just saying that it's a thing.
Thanks for the support I appreciate it. Stephen