View count?

[fries]

This is something thats bothers me almost every time I check out the video section. Maybe there's some reason that i'm missing but every video has a view count that is a multiple of 10...

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So what's the explanation for this? Am I being stupid or is there something fishy going on here?

 

[Mr.Bishop]

Don't take this as an official response, this is just the way I've always figured things work. Content related items such as videos, news, photos etc receive so many views in a day that it's just easier for them to be counted in intervals of 20 or so. When I post an article the views count will normally go up by 20 views at a time until the end of the day. At midnight ET time the cover photo changes and if you look at the videos, news, etc they all mostly will end in an odd/uneven number. Basically they just count up by 20's until the end of the day when the final view number is listed.

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I think you're close to right. Paul is out on vacation this week so I can't confirm, but the view counters had to be changed during one X-games where they crashed the site during a trick from Henrik spiking traffic like crazy. The actual view count is tabulated, but the system only increases it periodically and likely rounds it for certain displays to save on processing time.