But the fact that you see just such a feature (among other features) on small sites running off-the-shelf software is one of the reasons they can't ever become big sites
au contraire mon frere...stockhouse.com has the number of times each post has been viewed in the bottom right of the post. For some reason, it only increases in increments of 9.
Thanks Bob it's really appreciated that you would give such a detailed answer. Hearing that this suggestion is still a possibility is good enough for me. Sorry about missing the Dell offer, bad timing. You people do a great job here and I'd like you to know that it is very much recognized.
I agree with you that we have the capacity to do it now as long as we limit the time frame(s) to no more than a few days.
We also agree that it has to be filtered to only to count one read per user - however we will define that - per time frame reported. It'll never be an exact science, but we should be able to come up with something that's useful and not easily manipulated.