"Views" count

[FaerieatHeart]

I'm sorry if this question has been answered somewhere. I searched, but I couldn't find it, so I'm going to ask.

I'm a little curious about how the number of "views" a thread gets is counted. Does a view count when a person just visits a thread, or is it counted everytime you view a different page for a thread?
For example, if I were to go a thread and look at three of the pages of that thread would it count as 3 "views" to that thread, or just 1?

I'm curious because me and a friend are writing a fan fiction together on here and I want to know how to interpret the number of views the story has gotten. Have people gone to that thread thousands of times, or is it an accumilation of the number of times readers have visited the 70 plus pages? I hope this is not too confusing or intrusive.

Thank you for keeping this site so easy and open for all of us.

[THDGaja]

I poked around the forum a bit to see if I could figure this one out for you, but...not one thread that I viewed went up by a SINGLE view at all! Not ones I'd already looked at or ones I hadn't.

I think that they go up by thread views. Go to a thread and read through 18 pages? One view. Go to a thread, read, leave, come back when there is a new post? Two views, one for the original, and one for the return visit.

I think that's how it works, anyway. Sorry I couldn't be more help. :(

[FaerieatHeart]

It's alright, thanks for trying to find out for me.
I believe you're right about the the one visit, one view, I was just trying to confirm it. I'm a very curious person.
Thanks so much!