Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 27 SBD and 962 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 New All Time High For Accounts Playing Splinterlands First Airdrop Almost Sold Out! -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 16 SBD

Hey Splinterfans! So, you might think my favorite number in the game is marketcap because I post it all the time, but thats not my actual favorite. My actual favorite is number of accounts playing! Normally I look for all time highs at season ends, but boom BABY! Were still a day away and just hit a new ALL TIME HIGH! 2783! I cant wait to see what happens tomorrow cause its a season end, Kickstarter is going, and people are coming. I blinked and we have a total of 94,000 packs of ...

#2 Open Achievement -- by @dobartim with a current reward of 15 SBD

We grow on the foundations of a reality that frees us from the principle of unattainable virtues, each bark is marked by the details of success that go through millions of attempts. Going through stardust mirrors with attractive emotion factors, we remain consistent with the character of light in times of unrealistic ambition. The desert gives strength to the oasis to enter the zone of magnificence, your movements achieve a high mode of emotional beauty. We enter a vicious circle of f...

#3 My experience with slowwalker or how Artventure project came to live -- by @stef1 with a current reward of 13 SBD

a classsizefull wpimage3339 alt width640 height480 br ; ;; ; Today in my post I wanted to tell you a story of one of the supporter of our project Artventure it is slowwalker. You may wonder and asked why and why now? The answer is simple, there are a lot of blame around slowwalker some people say that his posts do not deserve a reward what he normally has, other people telling that if he will play according their rules then it will be OK. But that sound a bit like blackmailing someo...

#4 Dream of stillness and why you havent seen as much of me -- by @honeydue with a current reward of 11 SBD

No words can follow. No promises left to come. I run around, And I come back to you. Over and again. I cant seem to Shake my path clear of you. Your footsteps and your lies, Your acrimony shatters. Your guilt invades, Until I find my sleep shaken Until all I see, the embers of your face. All is empty, My beggars life hounded. I sleep the rest of the weary, The shuteye of the wronged. And in the cold, dead night, I feel your fingerlike claws Wrap around my shivering body. I ...

#5 Trump Hates Bitcoin But He Might End Up Being Its Biggest Ally -- by @taskmaster4450 with a current reward of 10 SBD

Donald Trump might inadvertently push cryptocurrency into the forefront for mass adoption. We have been looking for the killer application that gets the masses involved. Ironically, it might be in the White House. We can add Turkey to the list of countries who wont bow to the whims of the United States. This, of course, has Trump up in arms. Today, it was reported Trump is going to hit Turkey with sanctions. Cross them off the list of countries involved in the international banking s...

#6 Me, Myself and I An Introductory Post -- by @mrbandler with a current reward of 9 SBD

Hi there fellow Steemians, finally this is taking some shape. Ive always wanted to share some of my development journeys with others. Not only to be in good company and discuss the pitfalls that I am falling into occasionally more often then Id like to admit but also to try and educate some folks and to spark interests in areas that some might never thought possible. Soo... its still a bit of an understatement to say that I am anxious to get started! Well, you might have noticed a n...

#7 Converting an Action Cam to Full Spectrum Part 2 -- by @solominer with a current reward of 9 SBD

a I have a used action cam that I decided to modify to see in other wavelengths of light, such as IR and UV. In Part 1 the cam was taken apart and the lens was modified. Once the hardware modifications are done, its time to update the software. In Part 2 I show how I update the firmware, this is a needed step if the camera has not been updated since it was made. As without this update the images come out red, and purple. By updating the Auto White Balance can get alot closer to what shou...

#8 My Actifit Report Card October 14 2019 -- by @thecontractor with a current reward of 8 SBD

Today I was on a mission to do something about the erosion thats taking place at the beach and the pollution thats taking place on the main beach. I went to the environmental office in town to speak to the manager but he was to busy to talk to me, so I lodged a complaint...if that ever will help.... What I did find out was there is no plans to try and correct the pollution and the erosion problems thats taking place. So my next step is to speak to the environmental group... Do you feel ...

#9 WelcoME Newbees Intro Blog -- by @bryllegilbuena with a current reward of 7 SBD

Mabuhay steemians! Many of my close friends are active in this platform and they convinced me to try this one. They told me that I can earn money by making blogs that would be beneficial for the society. Moreover, they keep on talking about this and said that it is a visionary platform and at the same time a good investment of money, effort and time. And the terminologies here are new to me and I want to learn more so here I am now trying to grasp what is in this platform so please be fri...

#10 How High Data Charges By Network Providers Have Affected Content Creators And The Entire Network Users! -- by @oppongk with a current reward of 6 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Hello Steemians!, for those content creators, internet users and credit users for calls and messages in Ghana and other west African Countries who use MTN, sVodafon, AirtelTigo and Glo, there has been a percentage charges on any amount of credit or data you buy, which is automatically deducted as soon as you buy your credit or data for use. We know that as a customer buys from the Network Providers or Vendors, there is no need to charge again since the customer has ...

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