"Views" feature (again, not sure if right place)

[Iron]

Ah.....and here I though so many people were looking at our various threads up until now. Darn it!

Joking aside, I'm not sure why MyBB was designed to have that feature/flaw, unless the site designers wanted to leave an obscure option to artificially (and tediously) inflate the popularity of a given thread. *Shrugs* Oh well, guess its just a thing that has to be accepted.

Because it would be more work to program it the other way - you'd have to use cookies or IP logging to see if a view is unique. Which could potentially deliver false negatives and make your view count lower than it really is. It's currently logging actual views rather than unique views.

Our RPG threads go up every time one of us clicks into it, as you can tell from that thread being much more viewed than every other thread. If it tracked unique views, you'd expect a fairly even distribution of view counts on every thread in the whole forum.

All in all, it probably doesn't matter much either way. Just don't put too much stock in those view counts. (most views are probably bots anyway).