Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 5298 SBD and 11136 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 Again Soodeoksa temple and The Place for Maitreya in Yeosan area, Korea -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 94 SBD

After looking around at Booyeo city, I headed for Yeosan area to look at Soodeoksa temple again. I had posted on this temple October last year. Soodeoksa Temple The reason why I stopped by once again was for looking around DaewungJeon of Soodeoksa temple more carefully. I entered into the another direction on the way to Soodeoksa temple. At first, I saw the white Sarira pagoda seemed to be set on recently. The style of the Sarira pagoda was so impressive. Its style was modern, unlike ...

#2 eduSteem update 392018 -- by @bflanagin with a current reward of 74 SBD

Classes started on August 20th, and so began the real world testing of eduSteem. Though most of the features I had hoped to have working by the start date were indeed finished I soon realized that the things I thought could wait were the very things I needed. Because of these sort falls in the project I havent been able to use the program as I would have liked, but I am still confident that it will be an amazing tool for those that use it. After starting classes I realized that some l...

#3 Journey from adaptive immunity in bacteriaCRISPR to saving Mans best friendDog. -- by @scienceblocks with a current reward of 67 SBD

Back in late 90s and early 2000s, when I learnt about Mendel and genetic diseases; for me genetic diseases were a one way street. If you inherited a gene with detrimental mutation, your fate was written in your DNA. Less, did I know that my view was going to change in this lifetime. Hey Hooman! Wana play fetch? You throw gRNA and Ill run and Cas it! Picture taken and modified by scienceblocks By the time, I was in 12th gradeor junior college, I was keen on perusing genetic engineerin...

#4 Hatch Green Chile The Best Pepper in the World -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 59 SBD

Here in the beautiful, southwestern state of New Mexico, late summerearly autumn is a special time; the monsoons begin to wane, the air becomes crisp with the slightest chill to cool off from a hot summer, the state prepares for an influx of visitors that arrive with the annual Balloon Fiesta, and green chile peppers, our state treasure, are ready for harvest. From late August through mid September, the state is inundated with the delightful scent of roasting chile peppers. about targetbla...

#5 Mercury Remediation in Virginias South River -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 59 SBD

The DuPont factory in Waynesboro, Virginia spilled or leaked over 50,000 pounds of mercury into the South River throughout the 1930s and 1940s. This dangerous toxin has remained in the water ever since, with mercury levels remaining stable over all this time. The chemical is a byproduct of rayon manufacturing, which was made in large quantities here starting in the 1920s. Mercury is highly toxic to humans, affecting the immune system, altering genetic and enzyme systems, and damaging th...

#6 Yummy Hatch Green Chile Stew -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 57 SBD

If its even remotely cold outside or if Im even slightly sniffly, my thoughts turn to one of my great food loves soup. WIth the imminent season change and a small cold, I have gone soup crazy this week. This green chile stew is a family favorite, and also requires a beloved local ingredient green chile. If you havent heard of Hatch Green Chile, you have probably never lived in the American Southwest. It is served on everything here, and its spicy hot deliciousness is actually excellent for...

#7 Contributing on Hede.io Episode 2 -- by @curtwriter with a current reward of 50 SBD

There are not a lot of platforms built on the steem blockchain that allow for as much flexibility as Hede does. From the kind of posts you can write about, to the ease of usage of the platform, Hede.io allows users to contribute to the platform without having to be too official in their writing styles. Now, users unfamiliar with Hede.io may want to ask what is Hede? Id tell you guys in a bit. classpullleft Hede.io is an open source platform built on the steem blockchain. This platfor...

#8 Promoting digiKam on Facebook -- by @jingis07 with a current reward of 50 SBD

Utopian Visibility Whitelist My name is Ebixy Ebi Laffin and I have a page on Facebook where I promote open source applications. As an advocate for opensource applications, I would love to see its widespread use in line with the goal of utopianio. These days we almost cannot do without pictures. Pictures have become a part of our lives especially on social media and it can be a difficult task keeping track of them all. digiKam is an exciting application that we can use to edit and manage o...

#9 TribeSteemUps Weekly Gems -- by @trucklife-family with a current reward of 47 SBD

Todays articles, that are presented in this post were written to encourage us all to become more aware. More aware, of what is happening around us and how those things can affect us. It is up to us all to be informed and to make the best decisions for us and for the earth. These articles, were also written to encourage us to become the people we are meant to be. How we treat ourselves, reflects how we treat others. Personally, life for me is all about learning, evolving and being mi...

#10 STEEM to the Moon! SteemBlast is Today Everyone Read -- by @timcliff with a current reward of 45 SBD

The day has arrived! Today is Invest in Steem Social Media Blast Day! The goal of todays 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. Everybody can participate. Everybody should participate That includes you ; Instructions are below. Our ambitious goal is that as a result of this social media blast day, we push ...

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