Idea views - Don't increase the counter when idea creator opens the idea

HI Suraj

Do you think creators will open the idea constantly to increase the number of views? How does it happen on youtube?

Ana Sequeira

Hi, Ana.

In my experience, commonly in forums each user generates a single view at most (if the same user refreshes the page, the views would not be increased further).

Also, the current view meter is easily spoofed. This idea has over 2k views.

Hi Caio and Suraj,

I deleted your idea since it was duplicated with this one. I'm not sure why someone takes time to constantly refresh an idea in order to increase the number of views. Views don't count to the ranking, so what is the issue with the current process?

Cheers

Ana 

Hi, Ana.

I think its importance comes when doing a Likes to Views ratio. That way we can measure the overall interest of the community over certain ideas.

Thanks.

I noticed it refreshes the count every time you reload the screen.

Yes, It is very useful.

If our idea contains a lot of comments, Then everyone will visit the idea page and it will increase that counter.
We will be in thoughts that a lot of people are checking my idea. If it will be a unique count, Then will get an exact number of count.

The page keep increasing the quantity of views when we press F5. This is not a trustful information.

Thanks a lot Ricardo.