Is it possible to artificially inflate the number of topic views?

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Just hide that column until you feel comfortable showing those numbers.

How to hide the "views" column?

My forum is rather new and it is somewhat embarrassing to show the low amount of views in the “views” column. Is it possible to hide it (also hide from little information panel at the end of each OP? Thanks in advance,