When they removed the page view counter from the pages that was when I first started to question the viability of Steem as a Business Token. The reason's given for it were patently false. page counters and page view software has been around for a very long time, a lot of the advertisers use it, and even google is capable of using it with out it being gamed, But with the bid bots, and the large number of votes, and the "Promotion" factor, it revealed the lies, no views on the pages of so called trending post.