Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 18963 SBD and 694 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 Chanses Excellent Gaming! STAR STREAM MY DUDE!! -- by @chansetheguy with a current reward of 281 SBD

Thank you very much for the DLiveStar award! . I joined DLive in early January, after stumbling across it only a few days after joining Steemit. I started streaming from my potato laptop and man, it has been a journey. The first day I streamed, I received a small reward through an upvote and thought to myself Wow, someone actually watched the stream and voted on it?!. I estimate it would have taken months or even a year or two to have people actually start watching my brand new stream on ...

#2 Help us Win a Trip to the EOS Hong Kong Hackathon -- by @dna-with-greg with a current reward of 231 SBD

Hello All, Last night our project placed an entry into the EOS Hong Kong Hackathon Competition EOSHackathon. We think this is a great opportunity to get our project some exposure while also getting some of the programming work we need to do nailed down. Its a great opportunity for us... and All We need is your likes to get there. EOS is the Blockchain operating system the AGE Project Software Application will run on. So a chance to sit with experts from EOS and around the world and start...

#3 First Flight Mavic Air DTube Exclusive -- by @spenceryan with a current reward of 175 SBD

a Hey DTubers, Spencer Ryan here Today was my first time flying the Mavic Air. My first time flying a drone at all actually. I put together a small montage of drone clips. Check it out in the video above! Let me know what you think! I Get ALL Of My Music From Make sure you Upvote, Comment and FollowSubscribe to stay up to date with all of The Daily Vlogs! The Camera I Use to Vlog With The B Roll Lens Im Using The Microphone I Use For Vlogging The Tripod I Use While Vlogging Th...

#4 BALTIC COUNTRY LITHUANIA -- by @ginamber with a current reward of 161 SBD

Welcome to my blog! I dedicated my previous articles to Turkey, but in this article I would like to explore with you the land of Lithuania. Lithuania is a small country population less than 3 million people in the northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic countries together with Latvia and Estonia. Its neighbours are Latvia in the north, Poland, Belarus and a tiny part of Russia Kaliningrad in the south. It is a relatively new country as it got independence in 1990 after it offici...

#5 For true happiness you must first experience unhappiness. -- by @jansher with a current reward of 157 SBD

source What exactly is happiness? This is a question surely each and every one of us has wondered about from time to time. Of course, there are probably as many answers to this question as there are people on this planet. Different iniduals have different scales and benchmarks on which to measure happiness and conclude whether they really are happy or not. Be that as it may, there are certain theories and concepts regarding happiness that might well be universally applicable. Before discu...

#6 Cannabis Corner Strain Review Jack Herer -- by @writesbackwards with a current reward of 148 SBD

Jack Herer is one of my favorite strains of weed. Its a sativa dominant hybrid that strikes the perfect balance. As someone who works in the cannabis industry in California, Ive been lucky enough to try many different strains. And I love them all, from heavy hitting indicas to high flying sativas. But the one I always come back to no matter what Jack Herer. The strain is named after the famous cannabis activist Jack Herer, also known as the Hemperor. It was developed in the Netherlands...

#7 What To Expect at a Massage in Mexico Guadalajara -- by @tangerinetravels with a current reward of 136 SBD

One of the things we were very curious about when traveling to Mexico is what massages are like. How much do they cost? Are they the same as in the US? Last Friday, we found a place called Paxio Spa and went in to make an appointment. The cost for a 60minute massage was more than we were expecting to pay, but the reviews had nothing but great things to say about the place, so we decided to splurge a bit. In this video, we talk about What you can expect at a massage in Mexico, What it ...

#8 EXCLUSIVE DTube Video 100 Donating SBD to charity Celebration -- by @tanbay with a current reward of 133 SBD

a This is my exclusive dtube video 100 and to celebrate Im giving the final SBD earnings of this video away to the charity Originally I was going to make this video all about my failures and successes right here on DTube, but there is something more important that needs urgent attention. My friend thelifeofjord is currently in the Philippines with the charity that I will donate the SBD from this video to and they are doing amazing work. Heres whats even more amazing thelifeofjord actua...

#9 Python Tips Counter -- by @themarkymark with a current reward of 132 SBD

Counter is a collections object that keeps count of how many times similar values are found. Counter is part of the collections module and is a default package, so you do not need to install it. The most commonly used function is ironically mostcommon, which returns the most frequently found values. Lets go through an example and it should make a lot of sense. import collections c collections.Counter c.updateI know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun ...

#10 Sky On Fire -- by @eveuncovered with a current reward of 129 SBD

Gorgeous sunset, taking the camera out, yesterday, you know the deal. My favourite part about these is that you can see the settings sun through the attic windows of my grandmas house. Shot with the Nikon D7200 and Nikkor 55200mm f45.6 lens, which I havent used much after getting the Sigma 1835mm, and I kinda miss the different approach this zoom gives. I used to love this lens, but compared to the premium lens Sigma, the quality of this baby Nikkor is potato. Okay, its not the worst, but...

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