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Assuming this is the info box in new Reddit, those stats always felt... wrong
The difference between comments/votes and supposed "views" made it seem like the later was inflated.
Even more obvious was when something got posted at odd hours of the night in a local community. The view count would take off shortly after, while the comments and votes would only show up around when people wake up.
I think you severely underestimate the amount of people who just browse and don't interact with stuff.
Oh the twitter post
I didn't notice where the quote ended
Could be partly explained by the language (and or cultural) barrier of the people from other parts of the world who view the post at night - when it's daytime in their country.
By local community I meant one that's specific to a small local area (ex. School, municipality). It's possible that people from other parts of the world are seeing the post in the All type feeds, but I found it odd that only views went up while comments and votes didn't until morning.
It makes sense for the cause to be bots, but that makes the number deceptive since it's implying that your post reached a certain number of human viewers. It should be possible to adjust that number based on their estimates of humans vs. bots
Also, bots would likely inflate that number pretty drastically.