This is one of the simple ideas that if implemented will motivate the authors to contribute more if they see a lot of people actually reading their stuff, and one of the easiest thing is implementing a page view counter, so posters know how many hits their post got.
This will help authors know if their post didn't get enough attention, or rather it has a lot of hits but people didn't like it so they didn't up-vote it.
I hope people in charge of Steemit see this post, and implement this as soon as possible.