And if so, doesn't that skew the views to vote ratio (since they can't vote)?
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When a specific logged in user views a video for the first time, this is called a "unique view." The votes:views ratio is determined by unique views. If you're curious what a queued video's unique view count is, hover your mouse over the "x views" text and it will tell you votes, views, and the votes-to-views ratio.
Also, maybe it's something wrong on my end but if I hover over views on unsifted videos I get the views to vote ratio (nothing about unique views), as soon as a video is published I get nothing when I hover over views. Any ideas?
edit: for clarity, this is an example of what I see when I hover over views:
7:12 (0.583333)
once published I see nothing.
When you hover over an unsifted video, the ratio you see is composed of votes:unique views, so in your example, 12 == unique views.
This information is only available for unsifted videos because it's used for votes-to-views sorting in the unsifted listing and would require a lot of server overhead to also maintain for every sifted video.