>>>>>>>>I believe, IIRC, that your initial version showed who viewed the message. And I remember that some expressed concern about privacy issue; which makes sense. I think what Matt is saying is to show how many times a message has been viewed without showing the names or IDs. This would not invade any body's privacy.
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>>>>>>>I would have to add this one into the next survey. lol
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>>>>>>You know, you make a good point about making sure not to upset some people. I can even see now (without naming names *g*) that some will raise issue that their messages are not viewed as often as some others.
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>>>>>I wonder if anyone has any idea what the point of this is. I wondered what people would use this information for in a previous post, but I never got an answer from anyone - not even Matt who suggested it in the first place.
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>>>>>If there's no advertising revenue, then who cares.
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>>>>My guess is the point is narcissism.
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>>>I think when people submit a question and there is no response, they would like to know if it has been at least viewed since that is a standard feature on other forums.
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>>I agree that a "Message Has Been Viewed" flag would be useful. I just couldn't get my head around needing to know that it's been viewed 25 times vs 30 times. Heck, it's automatically viewed 1 time as soon as you post it.
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>And as soon as you view it to see how many times it's been viewed - that's another <g>

It's pretty standard on most forums though. Posters want to know how many times their question has been viewed by others. Experienced users want to know which threads have the most activity (perhaps it's an interesting discussion). Look at the column right next to the # of replies here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/netfxbcl/threads/

and here a column displays the number of times viewed:

http://www.csharpfriends.com/forums/showforum.aspx?forumid=1