Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 17083 SBD and 3070 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 Welcome to the Feedback Loop From Hell -- by @the-alien with a current reward of 100 SBD

There I was, doing research on the Kennedy assassination and I was doing it in brand new laptop. My old laptop had given up the ghost and I didnt even had the time to enter my details in the new computed, so I never logged in to Facebook, YouTube..etc It was like navigating the web on a clean slate. I didnt do it on purpose I just didnt have the chance to login into social media yet but sometimes the best discoveries are the ones that happen by pure accident. Heres where it gets inter...

#2 utopianio Contribution ApprovedRejected Analysis 30th March 5th April 2018 -- by @abh12345 with a current reward of 89 SBD

This is an analysis of the Contribution types, and approvalrejection numbers for the 30th March 5th April 2018 inclusive. Contents General Assumptions 1. Contributions Summary 2. Contributions by Type 3. All contribution Types 4. Summary Analysis 5. Tools used to gather data and compile report utopianio is the open source project for open source projects, housed on the Steem Blockchain. Currently, utopian.io holds 3.6 million Steem power through delegations from its kind spo...

#3 VLOGGING Through The MALL! Episode 27 -- by @spenceryan with a current reward of 73 SBD

a First off I just want to say the unethical hackers are losers. More on this topic in todays daily vlog. It was an eventful day however, and I got to end it on a nice note with a trip to the mall and The Cheesecake Factory! Also it seems every time I vlog in public, someone wants to be in the vlog. Check it out in the video above! 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 Vlog...

#4 An Unlikely Creative Crypto Artist Spotlight on Ruth Frances Greenberg -- by @creativecrypto with a current reward of 64 SBD

The illustration above was produced by artist zsolt.vidak specifically for this article. You can learn more about his work and process, here. This article was guest authored by Portland artist Ruth Frances Greenberg. In this artist spotlight, she explores her experiences integrating blockchain technology into her life and creative career. Specifically, she is a veteran of Steemit.com, an application created around the cryptocurrency Steem which is used to reward content and online engage...

#5 Bid Bot Pizza Shitposter makes it to Rep 60 Brought down to 59 Thanks to MB Unvotes and SteemSpeak Golos Peeps! Reinforcements requested! -- by @anthonyadavisii with a current reward of 57 SBD

Blacklisting on a few unvoting is GREAT but has proven to not be enough. I am putting together a list of all bot owners responsible for this accounts rise and hope they will take action. Please, forego profit for a moment and take care of this with the best tool we have available! Hint Hint Heres a quick tutorial on how to flag as it seems some bot owners may have forgotten. Ive been around for a minute and, if you look into my history, youll see that I have been an ardent advoca...

#6 Adam Kokesh Interview Kokesh 2020 A Peaceful Responsible Dissolution Of The Federal Government -- by @tlavagabond with a current reward of 56 SBD

a Many today are currently lost in the propaganda machine that was revitalized after the 2016 election, and which successfully folded so many independent thinkers right back into the twoparty manipulation they had once fought so dutifully against. All because they were convinced that an outsider had won, not realizing that there is no winning if still playing their game. It has become more clear than ever that the socalled outsider is nothing more than a manufactured antiestablishment can...

#7 An Amateur Look at Game Programming in C Start to Finish -- by @earthotherwise with a current reward of 51 SBD

a Hello everybody, I am Earth Otherwise and today, and for many days to come, I will be looking at the book Game Programming in C Start to Finish by Erik Yuzwa for the purpose of assisting both myself and others in the absorption of its ideas. This exercise will act as a comment upon, criticism of, and supplement to the book itself as well as a kind of tutorial series using the book as a foundation. I will be reading out passages from the book but they will be quite abridged. This first...

#8 Basle reflections I Capturing unreal reality 1 SBD challenge inside -- by @shaka with a current reward of 45 SBD

Greetings Steemians! This morning I made a trip to Basle for a little photo hunt. Initially, I had aimed to capture how spring is starting to spread across the town. However, the weather and thus light conditions did not cooperate. It got grey and cloudy and finally some rain set in. And so I omitted my initial intension and I started to meander along the streets. Looking here and there for anything worth capturing. Then, more or less by coincidence, a banks shopwindow caught my attent...

#9 November 2013 Digital Time Capsule Bitcoin Tweets from lukestokes -- by @lukestokes with a current reward of 45 SBD

Welcome to part 9 of 10! The Digital Time Capsule project is a labor of love where I filtered through over 25k of my tweets to find some old favorites about bitcoin. I took screenshots and organized them for your enjoyment using a Advanced Search for a from my account in 2013. This will be a series, one month of tweets per post. Searching for and organizing the tweets for all of 2013 took more time than I anticipated, but I hope you will find it worth it and these insights from the pa...

#10 Visionary Art Contest Teleport into the crystalline dimension -- by @krystaleye with a current reward of 44 SBD

These are my futuristic artworks made for the VISIONARY ART CONTEST organised by elohprojects together with slothicorn, the theme is to design an alien plant, a hyperdimensional object and a ine weapon. I have been self teaching myself how to use 3d software for the last 4 years and I love it, im always creating scifi looking objects for fun. As yet I dont earn a living from my art but would like to one day so I can focus all my attention on it. Im hoping steemit will help me ...

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