Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 7 SBD and 10268 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 Music, Life and Bat Flu -- by @darrenclaxton with a current reward of 68 SBD

As a musician and songwriter, Im usually very active on the local live music scene and have played loads of gigs and festivalsevents over the past 10 years. Songwriters Cafe Matlock Bath Derbyshire June 2019 Unless youve been living under a rock, cave or somewhere remote like the Amazon Rainforest, youll know how much The Dreaded Bat Flu has changed our lives and ultimately, stopped every single live event on earth. And unfortunately, Im still recovering from the dreaded v...

#2 Helpage India Curation Report 20th February 2021 -- by @helpageindia with a current reward of 43 SBD

Helpage India was born on 15th February 2021. It is not much time from that day and we have seen a bunch of good people are writers who have joined our Community. So far we have got 22 subscribers and we hope that more people will be coming and joining the community as time passes. Well , we are here with the first Curation Report of Helpage India Community where we will be highlighting some good quality post. Before we move ahead we would like to thank every single person who have wrote...

#3 Betterlife The Diary Game 15 February 2021 Power Up 100 -- by @aman9675 with a current reward of 41 SBD

Hello Steemians , How was it going friends ? I hope all of you are doing great and are all safe during the pandemic . So lets get started and talk about my todays activity . So even this morning, my day started as usual. I woke up around 9 in the morning. As the exam time is going on, I am not very busy. So I study till late in the night and also wake up late. After getting up, I drank my morning tea, put my phone on charging. Then I went to bathroom make myself fresh and brushed . Today I...

#4 BetterLife The Diary Game 13 February 2021Power up 100 -- by @nobita07 with a current reward of 40 SBD

Hello Steemians, Myself Uday, Now I start telling you about my whole day. So lets get started and talk about my todays activity. Today after waking up at 9 am, I drank 1 glass of water and immediately after drinking water, I went to get fresh after that I brushed I was thinking of taking a bath as soon as I started removing the clothes I started feeling cold then I did not bathe. When I came in fresh .after that at 6 am I went to biology tuition. then I called my friend and asked him ...

#5 PieDAO, what is it? -- by @onlooker007 with a current reward of 40 SBD

PieDAO is a decentralized organization, which provides a governance layer for token portfolio allocation provided by anyone on Ethereum network, thus bringing market accessibility and economic authorization. Brief introduction In the past ten years, great changes have taken place in the relationship between people and money due to the combination of macro trends of economic, political and technological forces. Indeed, people are paying more and more attention to domestic systemic risks,...

#6 Global warming is a total farce. -- by @leguna with a current reward of 39 SBD

Behold, I am about to commit a heinous climate change heresy, right out in public. A large number of my previous friends were of the global warming is going to cause humans to go extinct crowd. I admit, at one time, I believed it too. I have believed many stupid things in my lifetime, and changed my mind when presented with sufficient evidence. The thing that helped immensely was a solid grounding in college level statistics. See, it isnt the average temperature that kills you. Its th...

#7 What Drives You To Create? -- by @darrenclaxton with a current reward of 38 SBD

As a Songwriter and Musician, Im always creating new Riffs, Lyrics and hooks for my next song. Sometimes, you just wanna quit trying to make it big and forget it. But thats never on my radar, music is my passion and the very essence of who I am as a human being. Cover songs are something I never really wanted to play when I broke away from being a band member and was really stubborn and refused to copy other artists. Being a drummer and guitarist in covers bands throughout th...

#8 Completed 1000SP Next goal 2000 SP Thank you -- by @pratik0 with a current reward of 38 SBD

So it has been arround 7months since I joined this platform. But I started this platform about 3 months ago. So far my journey here has been very good and I hope that I can improve it further. Today I have built 1000 sp. It is just because of friends and steemit team. My friends rishabh99946 dharampsuser helped me a lot. Which is also the countrys representative of India. And I want to say a big thank you to all those Country Representative of India. They also helped me a lot. All of them c...

#9 My 3D artworks... 196 -- by @zpzn with a current reward of 36 SBD

My painting 196,In my painting number 196, I have a red heart in my painting, and 2 faces, I used a dark background in this one, I tried to have less reflection of this shape, I just used my favorite special material and lights to have some reflection and shadows in my painting ... I created the face I used in this painting with the ZBrush program, then transferred the changed face to the Cinema 4D and added shapes and other things to it ... I have to use this program more in my paintings a...

#10 I Cant Believe I Caught THAT On Fire! -- by @freedompoint with a current reward of 31 SBD

a Out on walk about with The Inventor, we stopped over at the old homestead. Homestead 1.0. We were checking in to make sure the neighbor was ok during all this cold weather. One thing lead to another and I stumble into a story about almost burning the whole forest down. As any vlogger would do, I whipped out my phone, and The Artist started recording. Everyone has a moment when they learned a whole lot about life really quickly. That fiery night was one of those for me. We live without...

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