just had a conversation with someone, part of which was regarding the weights and measures stuff on this site...

if part of what contributes to getting to the "top" is the number of views, then that algorithm should be based on unique views.

currently, if you click into an image, that generates a view.  if you leave a comment, once that page refreshes, that is counted as another view.  which means, in theory, i could just go and hit refresh on someone's image 100 times and that would generate 100 views.

so maybe unique views based on IPs or something, if all these weights & measurements tool continue to plague the site...

-- general gist of a piece of our conversation