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There are many times where the number of views is not proportional to the upvotes. This is because people just randomly upvote things for curation rewards. I think ontop of what you said, you should also put an eye next to the user name to show that they have actually viewed your content.

A modification to steem might be to reward reading a maximum of 10 times per day (not just upvotes) ... to encourage readership ... While it might decrease the value of steem it opens the potential of the coin.

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