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RE: View counter : I can take a hint - eventually
This is something I've been thinking about recently. steemit offers incentives for authors and for curators, but what incentive is there for plain old-fashioned readers?
As of now, this leads to a site that's "top-heavy." Lots of people writing and ranking content, but few people actually viewing it (although personally, I do view a lot of content, trying to curate well.) Eventually, if the content is good, it should bring the readers, but as with many things in steemit-land, we have to be patient.
I think you are right.
And I have been guilty of scanning the last half of some of the really long posts. Because I read on my desktop my attention span is lower. If I read on my tablet I might be more inclined to read longer posts.
But that's why I try to keep most of my posts under a three minute read. Maybe that's too short for people to really become involved in the story. Hard to tell.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the view counter only counts things that are read through the steemit.com web site. Much of what I read is through steemdb.com, as I'm monitoring bot votes, or through an RSS reader. None of that would show up in the view counter.
I had not considered that, and I do often read through a third party app.
Right. I have no idea what the percentage is, but with all this content on the blockchain, there are innumerable ways to get to it. steemit can only count the ones that go through their web site. I guess the view counter is probably a good number to use for relative comparisons between posts, but as I think about it, I doubt if it's a very accurate measure of total views.
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Possible, but I don't think so. I'm not sure how they'd differentiate between people viewing articles and miners/witnesses/apps synchronizing the blockchain data. Even if it does, many of the sites out there copy the blockchain into their own local database and what we view is just a copy. Those sites could keep their own view counts, but I don't think they'd be able to pass it back to the blockchain.
Unless the blockchain contains access data?