Lack of Interest Robots should not cause thread view counter to increment

I don't find it desirable to have the view counter increment everytime google, or bing, or various automated robots crawl threads.

It gives the impression of activity which isn't actually there.

 

Personally, I still count them as users all the same, just like guests.

 

Search bots have a bad tendency to cluster around highly active threads. If you use any sort of view trending addons for showing active threads, this distorts those metrics.

 

Case in point:



I wonder how many views were bot generated.