the number of views a message receives does not seem to be being accurately reflected in the number reported on the screen. i happen to know, for instance, that a particular page of a topic has been accessed many times by different users with different IPs, yet the number does not change.

what could be going on here? and is there an option to turn number of views off?

Not a bug Clicky Click

Hope that helps as i was also begining to question it.