Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 18103 SBD and 5489 STEEM on post promotions using bid bots or vote selling services. I know bid bots are a controversial topic and it is not up to me to decide if these bots are good or bad. Heck, I'm a bot myself, so who am I to judge? However, I can help you with your own judgment by providing data. Besides my DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS, where I try to direct attention to posts that deserve more rewards, I decided to use the data at my disposal to publish another kind of top list.

Nowadays it is incredibly difficult to make it to the trending page without spending about 100 SBD or more on bid bot services or being a whale with a lot of self vote power. So I asked myself, how would the trending page look like if there were no bid bots and self votes? Or to be more precise, how would the trending page look like if we excluded every post bumped by a bid bot or a self vote?

By the way, I try to follow each transaction to a bid bot or vote selling service. Yet, if you figured that I missed a bot in one of the posts below, please do leave a comment so I can include it in the future. Thanks!

The Top 10 Posts NOT Promoted by Bots

So without further ado, here are the top earning, text based posts (excluding dmania etc.) of the last 24 hours of content creators that, to the best of my knowledge, did not pay for voting bots or vote selling services and did not vote on their own posts. A list of the humble, so to say. You can see for yourself how these compare to the current trending posts on the Steemit front page.

#1 SEMI FINALS STAGE Submit your entry to keep competing for the 2,000 SBD prize pool -- by @worldcup-russia with a current reward of 246 SBD

As you already know, blocktrades loves to sponsor this type of community engaging projects and anomadsoul acidyo know a lot of Steemians love this game, so we decided to organize this enormous Football World Cup event. We have more than 3,000 valid entries and the competition is starting to to get cooked, some people are already way too far for others to get close, but still, anything can happen on this cup as in the real world cup.. Croatia vs England Score Team vs Team Score ...

#2 Do Something More Useful Than Complaining Support Steemcleaners -- by @lukestokes with a current reward of 94 SBD

On the last Top 20 Witness Forum on MSP Waves, anyx again mentioned how expensive it is to run cheetah and pay the people working on steemcleaners. If youre not familiar what what Steem Cleaners does and how it improves your Steemit experience, please give the posts listed here a read a Posts Guides. If you dont have time to read them then take my word for what its worth or go browse through a of their recent reports note also, they have a very high 78 reputation You may notice, the l...

#3 Why being political is a very personal thing. The story of the Russian Germans from my familys point of view. Part one. -- by @erh.germany with a current reward of 89 SBD

Source Wikipedia Kustodiev But it doesnt happen very effectively through disputes or ideas told. To become an earnest politically interested person, you have to listen to stories of people who have succeeded in maintaining integrity during times of conflict. I want to be of service with the personal story of my family and will connect it with the events that took place in the course of history. When the Bolsheviks came to my grandfathers house and drove his family away, his question to...

#4 The Pay It Forward Community Support Initiative CSI WEEK 6 -- by @eco-alex with a current reward of 64 SBD

If youve been posting good content using the ecotrain tag and have very few rewards you will highly likely have received a 1.50 upvote curtsey of the Community Support Initiative! Im happy to say that I have found some really great posts from many of our community to support. That is what makes the ecotrain voting bot great, I Pay It Forward every day from the rewards of the bot, this post, and donations... Speaking of which, a big thank you to omdemian for his very kind donation to the...

#5 LIFE IN A MOVIE DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPERIENCE PART THREE DTUBE DAILY -- by @art.visuals with a current reward of 56 SBD

a Whats up! I am back with the part three of the documentary film experience vlog! This is the final part. today we will be taking down some threes and later burning them into a huge bonfire to celebrate the summer solstice! Truly amazing experience it was to shoot this documentary and the cool part is that its not over. We still need some shots, so we will be returning there in about two weeks, so stay tuned for some more epic nature documentary action! Enjoy the ride! a DT...

#6 Dear Baby1, -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 46 SBD

This letter isnt for this audience. This letter is for me to my kid. You are welcome to read and judge accordingly, but I want this preserved on the blockchain while this experience is fresh in my head. Dear Baby1, I want you to know Im excessively proud of you. I love being your dad more than anything else in this world. When you were born I looked at your mom who has been my best friend for more than half my life and said Move over buddy, theres a new sheriff in town. Ive never been...

#7 My Northern Adventures Destination Tuktoyaktuk. -- by @walkerland with a current reward of 44 SBD

The most exciting of my travel adventures all originate in the North. I thought it would be fun to share a bit about my past adventures in the North. These experiences helped to shape who I am today. This story is about our trip to Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is one of the few work related adventures that xwalkran and I got to share. Most often only one of us would travel so that the other could stay home with our son. TuktoyaktukTuktuyaaqtuuq Is an Inuvialuit ...

#8 The Magic Paper The Thin Line Between Modern Politics and Ancient Supersitions -- by @the-alien with a current reward of 43 SBD

The Magic Paper is probably the second most important aspect of the political world. The first one of course is the ability to match the number of breaths you take with the lies that comes out of your mouth. In short, the magic paper is a document that you can hand out to any person, to anyone in the world and the minute they touch it They get injected with some sort of secret wisdom serum. And withing seconds, you become the smartest, the wisest, and the most skilled inidual in the enti...

#9 Roofs of the world watercolor, pastel, markers Part 17 -- by @amalinavia with a current reward of 42 SBD

So I began my course on drawing the roofs of different cities in the world. The course is constructed in such a way that simultaneously lessons are given in three directions and on the same topic. I decided that I will sum up the method of comparing different techniques within a single topic. I will paint with watercolor, pastel and markers. The first part is under the link a of the world watercolor, pastel, markers Part 1 a of the world watercolor, pastel, markers Part 2 a of the worl...

#10 DADA Speak Visually, Get Art through Crypto -- by @creativecrypto with a current reward of 41 SBD

br altbanner.jpeg br hr altBANNNNER.png br DADA is a social platform built on the Ethereum blockchain where users have conversations with one another using drawings as the common medium. The resulting community becomes an entity that invigorates artists to connect to one another, create, and collaborate where their talents, efforts, and time are rewarded. altwebsite.JPG br DADA is completely free, and brings together artists from different countries and backgrounds to create litera...

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