Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 26404 SBD and 1735 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 Curie Author Showcase April 23rd, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 307 SBD

In spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following our t...

#2 Hacking Disasters w STEEM, ART, AND TECH! Thanks to the Support of utopianio! -- by @disaster-hack with a current reward of 240 SBD

Dear Highly Esteemed Steemians, From the bottom of our humanitarian hacker hearts we want to say.. Its because of YOUR belief in the power of Steem that we are able to continue to make an impact in the lives of victims of natural disasters living in developing countries. So, as our favorite Journey songs goes.. width450 height451 Thanks to the generous support of utopianio your belief has manifested itself in Kathmandu, Nepal to help fund an economic development program in a homeless e...

#3 Denver Broncos 2018 Draft Talk. -- by @broncnutz with a current reward of 159 SBD

The draft is only three Days away and the picture is becoming more clear to me who the Broncos will select with the 5 pick. For me, a guy who lives and dies with every single play Sunday Afternoon....the 2018 NFL Season starts on Thursday even though the first game is still many months and practices away. The draft is very important NOT to miss on your first round players and thats why with the 5th pick in the draft.....The OG Broncnutz selects Quenton Nelson, Guard from Notre Dame. This ...

#4 Utopian.io Rewarding The Open Source Community London Crypto Show 2018 Presentation -- by @ashtv with a current reward of 127 SBD

a Im pleased to release the official promosteem utopianio presentation video from the London Crypto Currency Show! In this video techslut gives potential investors an insight to what utopianio is on the Steem blockchain and how they reward users for contributing to open source projects. I ashtv have filmed and edited this video forwith the PromoSteem team in full professional quality, in a voluntary capacity, for the projects involved. This video will aim to serve as a useful resource ...

#5 EXCLUSIVE DTube Video 93 My first Steemgigs Client succeeded on DTube! -- by @tanbay with a current reward of 101 SBD

a A few days ago I made a video about my latest Steemigig where I offer free help, that gig is still active btw, check it out here Anyways I got my first client and he wanted to be a successful DTuber and today he got his first upvote from DTube and that makes me very happy! Please show him some support and give him tips! Here is a link to his Steemit profile If youre new to my DTube channel check out my introduction video with 24 interesting facts about me here My fianc lauracody a...

#6 A walk along the beaches on the West Coast of Scotland! -- by @vtravels with a current reward of 99 SBD

Hi Steemians! Today I am sharing my trip to Scotland last week, I explored some amazing beaches and came across so many amazing sights! I hope you enjoy the post! Verity x As some of my followers might already know I have a real connection with the West Coast of Scotland, with most my family now living there its an amazing excuse to go up and explore more of this amazing place. We have been going there, every year, since I was born. I rememeber the long car journeys and not once did we com...

#7 REHOUSING MY M.BALFOURI IN A CHEAP AND EASY TERRARIUM -- by @superjongky with a current reward of 88 SBD

Seeking for odd post? Then you must read this! Hello Everyone! Its been two weeks since my schedule is in an array of errands and I wasnt able to give attention to my Tarantulas and ofcourse communicate with other steemians. The last time I rehoused my tarantulas was eight months ago. Indeed my busy timeline has eaten much of my Tarantula moments. For a while, I am taking a break in my paintings but this time I want to share with you how I came up with a simple and cheap terrarium fo...

#8 Illuminati Who Are They Really? And Where Is Donald Marshall? -- by @goldendawne with a current reward of 76 SBD

Image Source Pixabay The Illuminati While starting more indepth research into the Illuminati over the weekend, I visited one of my goto pages.. The facts in this article are ones I already knew about; New World Order, one currency, one government to abide by, the possible elimination of religions and unifying only one religion and so much more. These are what I consider basic and known speculation. NOTICE I didnt say known facts After reading all the information on Facts Are Facts w...

#9 You Need A Hardware Wallet -- by @jrswab with a current reward of 76 SBD

If you put money into Bitcoin or another crypto, its mad essential to store your wealth in a hardware wallet. These devices keep your private keys off the line which significantly increases your security and limits the chances of your currency being stolen. I picked up my first hardware wallet back in 2015 about a month or so after I started to invest in Bitcoin. Even though I had very little I knew that as time goes on the value of any fraction of Bitcoin would increase. My investment wa...

#10 My first presale...APR Coin launches tonight 700pmPST -- by @economistkerri with a current reward of 68 SBD

Hi Steemians, APR Coin is the first presale Ive taken part in. As with all presales everyone says this is a scam but I get obsessed with the unknowns so here we are. I bought 50 APR coins at 5.00 USD each. The wallets are released tonight at 700pm so well see if my money disappears, gets cut in half, or doubles. Being realistic, my best guess is that it will be worth about a quarter of what I paid. As many skeptics pointed out, a 5 coin is SUPER high... even SBD doesnt carry that kind...

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