#3961 - Probabilistic and Logarithmic update of view counts

Lines that this will affect (from v9, as this is initially for a customer)...

$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query('UPDATE '.get_table_prefix().'banners SET views_to=(views_to+1) WHERE '.db_string_equal_to('name',$name),1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query('UPDATE '.get_table_prefix().'banners SET views_from=(views_from+1) WHERE '.db_string_equal_to('name',$name),1,NULL,false,true);
$connection->query_update('attachments',array('a_num_downloads'=>$myrow['a_num_downloads']+1,'a_last_downloaded_time'=>time()),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['FORUM_DB']->query('UPDATE '.$GLOBALS['FORUM_DB']->get_table_prefix().'f_topics SET t_num_views=(t_num_views+1) WHERE id='.strval((integer)$this->id),1,NULL,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('videos',array('video_views'=>$row['video_views']+1),array('id'=>$row['id']),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('videos',array('video_views'=>$myrow['video_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('images',array('image_views'=>$row['image_views']+1),array('id'=>$row['id']),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('images',array('image_views'=>$myrow['image_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('iotd',array('iotd_views'=>$myrow['iotd_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('catalogue_entries',array('ce_views'=>$entry['ce_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('news',array('news_views'=>$myrow['news_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('galleries',array('gallery_views'=>$myrow['gallery_views']),array('name'=>$cat),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('seedy_pages',array('seedy_views'=>$page['seedy_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('calendar_events',array('e_views'=>$event['e_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
$GLOBALS['SITE_DB']->query_update('poll',array('poll_views'=>$myrow['poll_views']),array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
if (get_db_type()!='xml') $entry['ce_views']++;
$this->connection->query_update('f_members',$change_map+$extra,array('id'=>$id),'',1,NULL,false,true);
set_value('page_views',strval(intval(get_value('page_views'))+1));

To stay within an order of magnitude of accuracy (accuracy changing logarithmically), that means a linear relationship between view count and the view count raise step.

I plotted some graphs and this works well...

Raise step = max(1, view count / 20)

Or expressed as probabilities...

Probability = min(1, 20 / view count)