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There could be more downvotes than views if users downvoted and cast spam flags on the question. Spam or offensive flags cast an additional downvote from the system immediately, but are removed if the flag is declined. For more information about how spam flags work, see What are the spam and offensive flags, and how do they work? on Meta Stack Exchange.


Here's an hypothesis, born of observation: although the combination of oracle and iis is absolutely warranted by the contents of your question, this combination makes people decide to skip your question. If I check in the list of questions that have both tags, the first thing I notice is that there are a total of 43 questions on SO that have both tags. ...


As well as the spam flag autodownvote Quantas mentioned, the question could have been in a review queue. I don't think seeing a question in a review queue counts as a view, but in some queues you can still vote. That is probably not the case in this particular example, but it is a way a question can have more votes than views.


You have several high-volume tags there, so that can't be the problem. The title is a bit long and elaborate. Also having a title that is identical with the body is not nice*. I would try shortening the title a bit - say to Sharing an Oracle connection pool in IIS Also, generally, make sure you're using the right terms. Is "connection pooling" ...


No, I don't think this is a good idea. If we use post length: There are plenty of posts I just skip because they're too long. Sometimes I downvote and/or vote to close, but not all that often (at least not purely based on post length, although code length is a different story) (not having read it at all / in much detail doesn't put me in a good position ...


According to The Best Time to Ask a Stack Overflow Question?, the best time to post a question in order to maximize views due to high site traffic is between around "15:00 and 22:00 GMT/UTC": However, keep in mind that that post is about 4-5 years old, so the current site peak traffic may change changed as the number of users has increased over the years. ...


The best time to post your question is now. No, really. Number of views is a self-correcting problem. If you post during a quiet time, your question will stay on the front page longer, and eventually get the same number of views as that of a question posted during peak hours.


Step one would be to check if your questions is as good as it can be. Is all necessary information there? Is it tagged properly? Are there more relevant tags that might attract the attention of the right people? If your question can be improved, update your question. This will also have the result that your question gets bumped to the front page again, ...


Use the "share" link to publicise the question on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and the like), other relevant forums where people interested in the tag might hang out. There are even badges for that. Raise a bounty. This will put it on the "featured" tab.
