"it's a "feature", not a bug. you hafta access the thread once to read it,
but twice to read and reply."

Hmm. I'm talking about new threads here (ones that I started).
Before I start a new thread, there cannot possibly be any new views.
So I create a new thread. Type in my stuff. Hit create thread. That counts as 1 view??
Then (since at that point I have to back out to get back to thread I've just created), that gets counted as another view?

Well, OK, technically (and purely in web-page-switching terms) I suppose so. But it's not exactly what yer avrerage punter would expect to happen, is it? If I create a thread then I expect the count to be 0 when I exit that thread (unless I've delayed a long time before exiting the thread).
Also, if I enter an existing thread, that should be counted. But if (still within the same thread), I post a reply, I haven't left that thread, I'm still in it. so that shouldn't be counted...

And I suppose that if I post a reply, realise I've mistyped something, edit the post, etc.. each of those gets counted as a view? No wonder some of the view numbers get so high...

But I suppose it doesn't really matter. I'll just ignore the number of views in future as being a statistical anomaly. (IE, useless.)

Cheers,
Diolma