Post Views Counter On Steemit

Component

This is an unusual suggestion about Steemit platform as it has to do with the Post View Counter. Steemit is a great platform built on steem blockchain and rewards bloggers for adding undiluted values to the platform through their high quality contents. Despite being in a beta stage, it has enjoyed some updates and the number of users keeps growing every blessed day. However there is this issue I notice on Steemit platform that needs the developer's attention. I believe this suggestion is expected especially as steemians await the highly anticipated hardfork 0.20.0.

Proposal

The number of views each post has gotten is displayed beneath the post in between the comment and social share icons. I have discovered that the post view counter counts the view of the post owner (ie the account that made the post) and add it to the number of views a post has gotten. Even when the post's owner refresh the post like ten times, those ten views are added to the number of views such post has gotten. I believe this really affect the uniqueness of the post view which is not supposed to be so. There is a difference between unique views and raw views.

I suggest that the post view counter should only count unique post views (excluding that of the post writer or account). Also, when others view the post, the counter should only count each viewer's first view and hence ignore the repeated views when the users refresh or revisit such post.

I believe the post view counter should be able to differentiate unique views from the entire raw views a particular post gets.

Mockups/Examples

See below a post of mine for example. The screengrab below shows the number of views the post has gotten as I'm writing this sentence.

Now, let me go to the post to view it again and refresh the post severally (hopefully 10 times) so we can see what I'm talking about.

As you can see from the above screengrab, the post's view counter is showing 33 views instead of 23 views where my 10 times refresh of the post has been added to the number of views the post has gotten. This has obviously affected the genuineness of the counter and hence the number of vies we see doesn't truly imply the unique number of views the post has gotten.

Benefit

It is obvious how much value this suggestion is set to add to the posts' data. This will differentiate the unique views from the overall views which I believe is what the view counter is supposedly meant for.

This will clearly enhance the effectiveness of the counter and add another value to the platform entirely and is one of the great features expected from the Hardfork 0.20.0.

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