What you're describing sounds like the viewers who set 'guestbook' style... which allows them to display all messages at once in order to zip through the message board one message at a time. Everything is open and can all be read at once as if you were reading one long page; script.

It makes it super-fast to read what you want when it's all there at one quick glance... and that is probsbly why it displays a view count since it was open with everytjing else.