Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 6135 SBD and 10471 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 The SteemBlast Campaign Starts Tomorrow Monday September 3, 2018 at 1100 am Eastern time UTC4 -- by @timcliff with a current reward of 197 SBD

As many of you have heard, we are organizing an Invest in Steem Social Media Blast Day. The goal of this event is to coordinate a massive social media blast, where everbody starts talking about how amazing Steem is all at once. We want to generate as much buzz about Steem across the internet that investors cant ignore it. Our ambitious goal is that as a result of this social media blast day, we push into the top 20. The blast will start tomorrow Monday September 3, 2018, at 1100 am Easte...

#2 Buddha Statues of Choson Dynasty in BaekJae Kingdom Museum, Korea -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 107 SBD

It was Baekjae kingdom museum where I saw Buddha statues made in the Choson Dynasty era. As entering into the museum, the Choson dynasty Buddha statue special exhibition was going on. The museum was built for the memory of BaekJae Kingdom though, the relics exhibited were those of the Choson dynasty. Thats because there are not so many relics of the BaekJae Kingdom to exhibit. The Buddha statues were so impressive. In the Choson kingdom, Buddhism was no more national religion. Even Confuci...

#3 Curie Author Showcase September 3rd, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 90 SBD

In the 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 o...

#4 Five More Cat Breeds to Love -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 59 SBD

Five More Cat Breeds to Love Last week I went over my favorite cat and dog breeds; it was hard to narrow down to just five types of these silly, adorable, and amazing creatures. So here are five more types of kitties I am completely enamored by Scottish Fold The unique ear shape of these cats makes Scottish fold kitties unmistakable and irresistibly cute. On top of being delightfully adorable, these cats are also extremely laidback. Ragdoll Ragdolls are distinct for their vibrant blue e...

#5 Five More Lovable Dog Breeds -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 58 SBD

Last week I posted an article detailing my favorite dog breeds. After further rumination regarding dog types, I realized it is impossible to narrow it down to just five! Dogs are such amazing creatures, even especially those without pedigree and a distinguished breed. I love mutts as much as I love any other dog, but here a five more breeds I absolutely adore Bull Terrier Some of you may only be familiar with this breed through Target commercials, but for those of you lucky enough to have ...

#6 Moon film a pretty decent film very few people saw -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 57 SBD

I am a big fan of Sam Rockwell. I believe he is one of the most underrated actors of his generation despite the fact that he already is generally regarded as being a great actor. That being said, this movie was pretty good, but not fantastic. For those of you that havent run away because youve gotten tired of my incessant chatter, you might already be aware that I am extremely impressed by anyone that can pull off acting on their own for long portions of a film. This was deserving o...

#7 Straight Outta Compton film incredible -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 56 SBD

I dont remember how I acquired it, perhaps they hadnt yet started making people show ID to get music i dont think they did, but I kept the album hidden because my parents almost certainly would have grounded me and taken it off me back in the late 80s. However, i gotta tell you, this was a real turning point in the world of music and is deserving of a biopic. This movie is exceptional to people who werent alive when this album came out as well. It isnt important that were a fan back ...

#8 Big Tubes at El Malpais Nat. Monument, New Mexico -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 56 SBD

Located in central western New Mexico about an hour west of Albuquerque, El Malpais pronounced malpieEES is Spanish for The Badlands. The region is home to the ZuniBandera Volcanic Field, where five lava flows lie in a rugged, roiling sea of petrified basalt across some 100,000 acres, up to 475 feet thick in some places. Around 3,00 years ago, one of the worlds most pristine lava flows was laid down, which combined with the older flows dating back over a hundred thousand years, form a 17...

#9 Actifit iOS version other Developmental Updates Episode 6 -- by @curtwriter with a current reward of 54 SBD

For those unfamiliar with this project, the Actifit app is one built on the Steem blockchain. The aim of this project is to encourage users to remain healthy by engaging in various activities. These could include walking, football, boxing, running, basketball, martial arts, jogging, and even house chores or shopping. The beautiful part you get rewarded for exercising on a daily basis. I am quite sure youd love to be rewarded for staying fit. The rewards come in the form of an upvote f...

#10 Feeding Time for A Bevy of Beautiful Swans -- by @ezzy with a current reward of 48 SBD

 Ive had an awesome time today. Incredible weather enjoyed with the perfect company. And then these feathery guys show up. A mother as well as three of her young. So graceful and curious all at the same time, they wanted feeding. I mean, what else? If I was one of them, Id be asking for the very same thing! The only problem was that I was trying my hand at fishing. For the first time in my life actually, so the danger of them getting tied into the ...

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