Often when writing meta posts, you are referencing values such as upvotes, downvotes, and views from other questions. This results in lots of "at the time of writing" and "currently", rather than their exact current values.
A potential solution would be to add some way of referencing these values, using some formatting, e.g., maybe $stackexchange.codegolf.q.231022.views would return the number of views from Recursive Z-matrix, format in reference to Unix-based variables.
Another potential formatting option: %se.codegolf.q.231022%.getViews, which would return the same as the other. Also an option, you could have after getViews (if you use the get one), could be replaced with getViews(), and maybe even a time period within the parenthesis (as in programming getters).
Other variations are of course possible, and would make sense as well. Whatever would make most sense to the community as a whole.
Also, you could replace views or getViews with upvotes, getUpvotes, or upv/getUpv, and similar for downvotes (dnv, etc.).
