Have you wondered how many views a post gets?
I have, many times. Some of my earlier posts didn't receive an upvote until a week after they were posted, so naturally I assumed
No one even looked at it...
This is a very dis-heartening experience for many first time users. I think many, like myself at the time, associate up-votes with post views. It made me wonder,
"what is the point in continuing if I post 5 times with no views?"
This is an unfortunate misconception with the current STEEMIT platform. A post views icon is in desperate need because one must consider there upvotes as the only form of judging there personal worth here. A new artist posting their heart out to a seemingly empty audience looks for a new audience... Simple as that.
Luckily for me, and probably many others, I kept on keeping on, and caught a couple whales one day.
But this is where I was, in the opposite spectrum, sent wondering about how many people had actually viewed it vs up voted it. I see many posts with 300+ upvotes, and I always wonder how many views it received. Did 5k view it and only 300 give it an upvote? or did only 300 people view it, and they all upvoted?
Knowing how many views a post receives can also help writers cater more to an audience. By understanding views vs. upvote, you could also decide what people are interested in and what to write about more often, instead of wasting time with "Boring" content nobody even cares to click on.
Plus I know some of the big dogs out there would love to compete over there big posts and how it got some 100k+ views.
There are so many positives to having a Post Views icon that I am just shocked it wasn't already implemented. Pretty sure Myspace had it 15years ago, so please, 
Thank you for VIEWING and comments are always welcomed.