Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 4896 SBD and 1028 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 MB Update Catch Up With the Recent Comings and Goings of Minnowbooster! -- by @minnowbooster with a current reward of 120 SBD

Hi everyone! Our team would like to take a minute to update you about whats going on at Minnowbooster. Every once in a while, there is just too much going on to leave our loyal userbase in the dark. So without further delay, let us tell you what weve been up to! Get involved Want to help other users of Steemit? As we take quality seriously, we have worked hard to eradicate lowquality content from Minnowbooster and will keep doing it. Alas, many nonEnglish bloggers, who post quality s...

#2 How To Get BUSINESSES To Give You What You WANT! Episode 25 -- by @spenceryan with a current reward of 109 SBD

a Having trouble landing those sponsorships or affiliations that you want from businesses? Heres some tips on how to land sponsorships and get businesses to give you exactly what you want! In the form of the daily vlog of course! DTubeIPFS Playback Issues? You can also find this video here. Make sure you Upvote, Comment and FollowSubscribe to stay up to date with all of The Daily Vlogs! The Canon Camera I Use to Vlog With The Sony Camera Im Using For Backup and B Roll The B Roll Lens...

#3 Simple is Hard. Birthday Doodle. -- by @dunsky with a current reward of 92 SBD

Google has its own doodles for different events and other companies is trying to copy that. Its trendy. So Russian local Google Mail.ru also changing its logotype covers for different events like that. Once theyve ordered me to draw such a change for users birthday purpose. It looks so simple now but actually there were a lot of unseen work behind. Ive started from pencil sketches as usual and then made some additions in the layout because this order was specific. I had to stay strict i...

#4 Trip on Head Muhammad wala -- by @abdkhan with a current reward of 76 SBD

there is a river in district punjab, multan, very clear water on here he provide the water the many villages, there is peaceful place here and very beautiful view here. the water color is very beautiful and clear. the people swin in the water. the water provide us the good environment. i was feeling awesome with our friends. it was very old river chenab their is he find river. Head Muhammad wala bridge is historical and beautiful. it is very 16 km away from the main city. this 1 km bridge...

#5 STEEMITHELPINGHANDS SURVEY AROUND THE SLUM AREA OF AGBOYI KETU LAGOS TO ORGANISE A FREE MEDICAL DAY -- by @steemhelpinghand with a current reward of 71 SBD

a Steemithelpinghands embarked on a survey around the slum area of agboyi ketu. Teaming up with legal medical experts and consultants we intend to organise A FREE MEDICAL DAY where every drugs ,test , consultation and mosquito nets would be given for free. FREE DRUGSTESTNETS The free services provided by Steemithelpinghands are malaria test Hiv test blood sugar test blood pressure test consultation mosquito nets administered Drugs steemhelpinghand will also provide...

#6 EXCLUSIVE DTube Video 77 Guess which Country filed the most Blockchain Patent Applications -- by @tanbay with a current reward of 56 SBD

a Guess which country filed the most Blockchain Patent Applications in 2017, the answer will surprise you! If youre new to my DTube channel check out my introduction video with 24 interesting facts about me here My fianc lauracody and myself are Travel Bloggers, Instagrammers and YouTubers known as Travelling Weasels. This video is brought to you by the Bitcoin Flip App Download the FREE Android version of the app here and the free Apple iOS version here Watch the video below for mor...

#7 Hey folks! -- by @renespanier with a current reward of 55 SBD

I am from Germany and I work as a graphic and UX designer. My goal is to give companies especially in the blockchain industry a boost by providing them a clear, userfriendly and appealing design. Since I truly believe in freedom and blockchain technology it is mandatory for me to join the steemians. I decided to use the steemit platform as my blog where I am going to share designrelated stuff and present you some of my work but also personal posts. Furthermore I attend several libertari...

#8 Italian folklore in 8 creepy pictures -- by @creepyturtle with a current reward of 50 SBD

Hands up whoever has heard the word jella! It more or less means jinx or bad luck, though its pronounced with a ysound and is not just an abstract term for us Italians. In fact, we consider such bad luck to be more like an entity. As you might have heard, we are quite the superstitious bunch and thus believe in magic, monster and fairies of all kinds. This is especially true for southerners. If bad luck were a person it would probably look like this Well, maybe not. I suppose it sho...

#9 SteemConnect SDK for PHP Documentation -- by @hernandev with a current reward of 44 SBD

Documentation for SteemConnect SDK for PHP. The documentation now covers all the authenticationauthorization flow of the SDK, incuding code samples on every subject. The documentation were written in Markdown, and the website for the documentation generated with MKDocs. The documentation now covers All configuration aspects, including application and community name. An overview of OAuth and its flow with SteemConnect, including a list of scopes and screenshots to better illustrate the ...

#10 Contemplating Notorious ManEaters In Human History 1 -- by @chloroform with a current reward of 44 SBD

a By George P. Sanderson Wikimedia Hi everyone, I would like to talk about maneater. This is a common word to describe any creatures which have the propensity to eat humans. They dont necessarily prey on humans as a part of their hunting pattern but if there is no other prey or they were threatened by humans, eating them would not be the end of the world. We have seen a lot of movies which illustrated various unfortunate accident of animals which hunt human such as Jaws and Anaconda bu...

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