I found this posting while searching for techniques to remove the View column. I worked it out myself, by making small modifications to the viewforum.php file. I don't really like hacking the main files directly, as it will doubtless make updates a little tricky, but it's fast and it works.
There are two lines to comment out in viewforum.php:
<th class="tc3" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_forum['Views'] ?></th>and
<td class="tc3"><?php echo ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null) ? $cur_topic['num_views'] : ' ' ?></td>You could comment out these lines using the HTML commenting tags, but then the output of the column will still be visible in source. Not that it's such a big deal, but I prefer to clean up the source as well, so I comment the lines out with:
<?php /* remove views <th class="tc3" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_forum['Views'] ?></th> */ ?>and
<?php /* remove views <td class="tc3"><?php echo ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null) ? $cur_topic['num_views'] : ' ' ?></td> */ ?>This will eliminate those lines from your HTML source altogether.