What is meta? ×  Possible Duplicate: View count out of date on a
Stack Overflow question  When I look on the individual user page
at the number of views a particular post has, I see that (for
example) the question Difference between covariance and
upcasting has (at the time of writing) 690 views:  User page
post views  But when we click through to the question, it
records one fewer (689 at the time of writing):  Post page post
views  I've had a look at a few other questions, but can't find
any that display the same behaviour.  share|improve this
question  marked as duplicate by Cody Gray, Time Traveling
Bobby, Marc Gravell Jul 21 '11 at 7:39   Someone disliked the
question so much that they erased it from their memory. It's
like a new kind of super-downvote. –  Cody Gray Jul 21 '11 at
7:14  1 Answer 1  up vote 1 down vote accepted  The reason for
the difference is most likely that the two sets of data are
cached, but the data on the user page was cached later (count =
690) than the data on the question page (