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Should we display the number of views?

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I personally like the idea of knowing how many people have viewed my posts. Even if it's only shown for the person who posted the question

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posted over 3 years ago
3y ago by Moshi‭
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manassehkatz‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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This is a 2-part issue: 1 - Is this information recorded? 2 - Do we want to display it? Recording this is a significant hit to the database - an update for every single view. It gets a bit more complicated if we want to track unique (i.e., per user) views. If this is already being tracked then display is a UI/policy issue. If it is not already being tracked then (based on my experience in other projects) I would think long & hard before adding that tracking. @ArtOfCode ?

Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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I would imagine that the main reason SE displays it, is to see which posts that are most profitable. They refuse to delete some bad or off-topic old posts if they have enough traffic. We hopefully will have no need for that. But maybe there are other uses - knowing which ones that are high traffic vs low traffic tags might be useful during moderation.

PSTH‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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Has this request been implemented?