Curious question

[Anonymous]

Ok I know curiosity is what killed the cat but I'm curious.... on a thread's to the left of the monitor where it has your user name, number of post, date registered, message x of x,  viewed xxx times, date and time of post. What exactly does the viewed xxx times mean? For example I post a reply in a thread today and it says viewed 1 time, there are 5 more replies by other members then I go back and reply to one of those messages by each user name it says viewed x times and my original post will say viewed 600 times. So I'm curious about what it means because I know I haven't viewed that thread or post 600 times. LOl does any of my jibber jabber make sense?

[Anonymous]

It means the total number of times the post has been read by everyone out there.

So the very first post will always have the highest number, say 302.  The next one might have 297 because everyone who read the second post must have read the first post, but a few of the people who read the first post never came back to read the second post.

By the time we get to the 10th post, I think it means that you will have read the first post 10 times, the second post 9 times, the third post 8 times ... and the 10th post once.  I'm sure there's some formula with lots of xs and ys to express it.