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RE: Would you like to see whats up with STEEM?
Once you start make decisions based on eyeballs, this data will be gamed.. It is much easier to screw page view metric than votes (even if we know that a lot of votes are automated). I'd better tried to categorise action into done-by-human and done-by-bot. That would give much more insights from blockchain activity.
I think both are needed. Votes and views. Each have their benefits and potential downsides. But for now, just like other social media sites, having both is beneficial.
Eventually, I would imagine a ranking or score derived from the number of views, number and quality of comments, votes, re-steems, search-engine ranking, and diversity of interaction. But that may be many, many years away. So for now, views and votes will suffice.
I suppose you miss one very important point. What is in blockchain (aka votes) is obvious and is the action that has the proof. It is in some sense deterministic. View is ephemeral metric that can not have a proof (at least for now) and can happen on thousand of sites for one given entry.
E.g. that >500 views of this post does not mean that this piece of content was viewed 500 times. Instead we can say that we are trust https://steemit.com that this content was accessed through this domain 500 times.
As such I'd stick away from integrated metrics that count views until better way for measuring views across domains would not be find.
@hipster, I don't disagree with your facts. However, the value is not exclusive to these. For some audiences, flawed data is better than none.