I thank you for coming back even if we did lock horns like goats once. (grin).

Number of engaged readers is much more important as a metric but probably next to impossible to quantify

Agreed and disagreed.

Agreed in the way that engaged readers is very important

Disagreed that it is impossible to quantify. For some great posts you make, the little eyeball icon will show like 75 eyeballs, but only 30 votes. That eyeball number is steemit calculated. That means 75 people loaded the post and had it on their screen, but only 30 people actually upvoted the post.

It is normal to see more "views" than upvotes, which is unfortunate. A good post, is a good post, and you'd think the # of eyeballs/views would be pretty close to the number of upvotes.

However, when you see 75 eyeballs / icon, and only 30 upvotes... I would consider that a problem. :)