I must be in the minority because "unique views" doesn't do it for me. I easily can reply to a daily handicapper thread upwards of 50x and usually rapid fire.
It is defeating to see the topic views not go up. That's the whole point of it anyway. To reap the rewards from your work. In my case it's topic views.
If I post 50x in a thread, I sure as hell don't want a visitor refreshing 50x and it count as 1.
I could care a less about connections to the database or server impact, that's what the company I pay for there server service worries, not mine.
Bottom line for me is overall topic views not unique views, it doesn't give me an accurate count of what people are doing. Bots are of no concern as well.
What can be done on a forum specific basis if it can't be done as a development basis for all. Perhaps a choice can be given because I can't be alone in wanting actual view hits and not unique alone.
