Feature request: ignoring refresh hits

Could I make a request for there to be an option to ignore page refresh/revisit hits for a certain amount of time?

In my work, we use ‘article read’ counts to give out prizes to our top writers each month. The problem is that with all view counters I’ve seen, the numbers can be skewed by people sitting on their own articles hitting refresh over and over again.

In order to get around this, I added a session variable (although it could be a cookie) so that any repeat views to the same article within an arbitrary amount of time (I’ve set it at an hour) would be ignored.

I’d be happy to submit a pull request if you’re open to this feature?

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-postviews/