Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 1845 SBD and 14796 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 What is MIRA? -- by @vandeberg with a current reward of 62 SBD

Im vandeberg, the Senior Blockchain Engineer at Steemit and today I want to talk a little bit about MIRA, the software solution to Steems hardware scalability challenge that I have been developing for the last few of months and which weve just announced has begun its soft rollout on Steemits nodes. You can find that announcement on steemitblog. You can also watch me, or listen to me, talk about MIRA on the latest episode of the Steemit podcast below. iframe width100 height166 scrollingno...

#2 Great Movie with moral lesson -- by @izaid with a current reward of 37 SBD

The movie, The Billionaire, which is based from true story teaches us a great lesson that we can apply in real life. Its about taking risks, dedication, hard work, and sacrifice on the things that youre doing. It also tries to imply that whenever you are down, feeling lost, and dont know what to do. Your parents will always be there on your side to support and guide you. They will give you some advice that can really help you because they know what is best for you. At the same time, t...

#3 Inside a scam call centre -- by @jimbrowning with a current reward of 27 SBD

a These guys are a particularly nasty group from Kolkata in India. They run a refund scam and this video shows what their call center looks like, how they operate, who and where they are. Ive sent a link to the unblurred version of this video to the Kolkata Cyber Police for all the good that it will do. To see the blurred version, here is a link to whats on YouTube I refer to a video where Christy has her files deleted by these scammers. You can find it here on YouTube Catch me on Tw...

#4 Kevin Harts Guide to Black History Netflix special its ok... i learned something -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 25 SBD

Seems like Kevin Hart has a ton of stuff on Netflix and I would imagine that he is quite wellcompensated for this. Rather than just have another comedy standup special, he came up with this and while it really isnt all that funny, it did accomplish the goal of showcasing the lesser known people of black history. httpsi1.wp.comreadysteadycut.comwpcontentuploads201902AAAABTmpIoUZE8xrcGYlEcr7IFY2NzU7aWYVfnyTiRim9b5G9lmAs6slaOgHKJituSyGgVgOExhTkfNzYAvr5ccS8v0Z0obcvAXOFEkgZZzWcKfXmO35n4yGy22goY...

#5 SPOILERS Im not happy with what they have done to G.O.T. Season 8 SPOILERS -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 25 SBD

As if the title wasnt enough, if you are not up to speed on season 8 of Game of Thrones then you should get outta here! source Like most people, I was so incredibly excited for the final season of Game of Thrones and was really hopeful that they were going to make it epic Thus far I have been incredibly disappointed and I am one of the people out there that believes that episode 4 of Season 8 might actually be the worst episode of the entire franchise. They deviated from the books q...

#6 Mute Netflix film Had some moments but mostly its pretty bad -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD

I got excited about this one because the trailer was very well done but also told very little about the movie. Now that Ive watched all two hours of it I can also say that the movie doesnt tell very much about the movie. source Set at some point in the future in Germany, this movie has another one of those overlying concepts that decades from now the world has pretty much devolved into a lawless playground that is overly sexualized and it doesnt seem to contain very much in the way of...

#7 White Boy Rick -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD

Ive been waiting for this film to arrive on Netflix for a while in my region. It dropped recently and I got to see it yesterday. It had some slow moments but overall it is quite entertaining and worth seeing. source Im a big fan of true crime stories and although I dont know how much of this story is fabricated and I am not going to look into it I do know that this is a prime example of how the war on drugs has been pretty dumb in the USA. Despite having Matthew McConaughey in it and...

#8 Steem is Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or is it? -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 22 SBD

Ok, a few people have been mentioning Steem is dead to me recently. So, I want to clarify a little FUD thats out there and try to bring my perspective to the FUD. First off, Steem is really hard to kill. The only way I see it dying is if the price of running a node exceeds the proceeds of running that node either for a long time or drastically for short times. Right now a top 20 witness makes 110,000 steem per year or something in that vicinity. Each Steem is worth 33 cents right now....

#9 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Flower meadow Part 682 -- by @velimir with a current reward of 21 SBD

a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com Enjoy! D 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! For good, inspirational read on various subjects follow gavvet For cry...

#10 Original Art Photography Series by velimir 644 Stone Horse -- by @velimir with a current reward of 19 SBD

a titlesource ur.com As if right from some story of old, horse leaps from the stone to become one with it. Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! I suggest...

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