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.