Views counter specification

[Dawn (Dawn Albrecht)]

@awesomerobot

@robbie.morrison

what constitutes a “view” and are the underlying thresholds configurable? *

A visit to a topic. Duplicate visits from the same user are counted after a 8 hour interval. A user is either a logged in user or an IP address for anonymous visitors. The 8 hour interval can be changed with the site setting topic view duration hours .

So if someone comes back to the topic multiple times in an 8-hour timeframe it only counts as one view?