Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 4788 SBD and 8689 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 Road to Steemfest3 10 The Physical Road -- by @abh12345 with a current reward of 49 SBD

The tenth installment in my roadtosteemfest series, the brainchild of anomadsoul as he encourages attendees, and those trying their hardest to get there, to write about their journey along the way. If you missed the first nine posts, you can catch up here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, if you wish. And now that you have totally not clicked any of the links above, lets begin... In less than 3 weeks, myself and hundreds of other Steemians will have arrived in Krakow and will have soaked up ...

#2 OracleD Is In Indonesia!!!! Netcoins Contest Video Message!!!! -- by @oracle-d with a current reward of 47 SBD

Welcome to the 25th update of OracleD Campaign powered by Fundition A Decentralized Crowdfunding Platform on STEEM Blockchain. We have finally reached Indonesia after months and months of planning due to an extensive schedule we will have to follow for the next . In a few hours from now we are set to give our first presentation at Malikussaleh University, Aceh. !Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of What Can You do With 5 Steem!.png Yesterday, we landed in Aceh Province in afternoon after 26...

#3 Netflix Gaining Permanent Home in New Mexico -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 46 SBD

Albuquerque, New Mexico has a long history with film and television production, and has been the setting or studio base for a great variety of movies and television shows over the years. Although most famously the setting for Breaking Bad and its prequel series Better Call Saul, ABQ has recently played host to movies like The Avengers, The Lone Ranger, and Sicario. In the past the state was extremely tax friendly for Hollywood productions, drawing in loads of crews and projects. Later, the...

#4 Fudgy Chocolate Brownies -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 46 SBD

Who doesnt love a gooey, fudgy, chocolate brownie? Brownies are the quintessential chocolate dessert. Serve them with ice cream, with a dollop of whip cream, or all by themself; however you enjoy a brownie, you know youre in for a decadent piece of chocolate paradise. I sometimes like to jazz up this basic brownie recipe by adding walnuts or pecans, but even this simple recipe still yields a fantastically fudgy brownie that is excellent without any add ins. Rich, dense, delectable, and alm...

#5 We Are Star Children The Jefferson Theater -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 45 SBD

This is a few clips mashed up from the We Are Star Children show a few years back at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia. Elby Brass and The Judy Chops opened up the show, and the Star Children got some of us up on stage for a few songs. The clip from the group number starts at 120, I know there is a full video around somewhere but I havent tracked it down yet. The Jefferson is a really cool old Vaudeville HouseMovie Palace on the downtown mall in Charlottesville, built ...

#6 Charlie Kelly Musician -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 45 SBD

We both love Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia, at least until the last few seasons, which seem to have lost the originality and humor in our opinion. Nevertheless, we love the older seasons, and one of my favorite parts are the occasional ridiculous songs and musical numbers the gang performs. Many of these are original works by series creator Charlie Day, who plays Charlie Kelly on the show. His parents are both music teachers, and taught Charlie both piano and guitar. Here are some of my f...

#7 Cloverfield Paradox A decent SciFi movie with plenty of annoying elements -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 45 SBD

This movie started out pretty great because there are good graphics and the story behind what i going on in the world is actually pretty interesting and well, is a more conceivable future for the planet than most of the other SciFi stories that exist out there. The story is that the earth is nearly out of energy resources and this crack team comprised of member from all over the international community is up in space messing with astrophysics in order to produce what is meant to be an...

#8 More Music From Always Sunny -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 44 SBD

In this episode from season 3, the gang decides to start a band, but no one can agree on the stylistic or musical direction of the group, and Charlie is the only one who can play an instrument. These clips show the origin of Charlies Nightman Cometh musical that he will eventually put on in a feeble attempt to seduce The Waitress. And here is Dayman in its final version, performed by the whole Paddys crew. This song has actually been covered by quite a few bands! Here are a hard rock ver...

#9 Smoking is banned almost everywhere in NYC -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 44 SBD

If you follow my stuff you will realize that I smoke. I am aware that I shouldnt and I am going to quit while I am here in the USA but Ill tell you what, if you want to smoke and I believe it should be your choice to decide what you do in your own life you can forget about it in most places in NYC. Now dont get me wrong, i do think that smokers should definitely be restricted where they can light up, but there seem to be a bunch of people in NYC that arent happy to restrict, they wan...

#10 Why You Should Fill Your Home With Plants -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 44 SBD

If you arent already obsessed with developing your own plant menagerie, let me give you a few reasons why you should keep these lovely, living things in your home. altHouseplants, Plants, Flowers, Bottle, Watered, Green They are Beautiful Aesthetically, my favorite type of decor in a house is the living beauties of plants. If youre looking for an inexpensive way to bring life into your home, you cant go wrong with a plant. The pop of vibrant green, the variety and delicacy in the leaves,...

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