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RE: Velocity Hardfork Account Creation Guidelines
They were removed because it was too easy to "game" the system, and generate fake views. It also was not an accurate reflection of view-count, since many posts are being viewed on other interfaces such as Busy.org and SteemPeak.com.
I don't even know what busy.org or steemspeek is and I am more than a year on this platform. So I don't think there will be so many people using these 'nerdy' alternatives.
They are not really nerdy alternatives. They are different choices to interact with the Steem blockchain. There is also DTube, DSound, and quite a few others. Quite a few people use them actually.
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.
haha you spelled it wrong but the link went to the right place so it still works. https://steempeak.com
Oops :) fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
no worries and I assume you'll likely see our set of questions in a new comment. We'd love to hear what you think as well.
Send me a link and I’ll check it out.
https://steempeak.com/hf20/@steempeak/re-steemitblog-velocity-hardfork-account-creation-guidelines-20180830t231749808z