Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 3953 SBD and 13358 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 Striking Bell Ceremony in Soodeoksa Temple. -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 99 SBD

It became evening. In every Buddhist temple, the ceremony use to be performed at the evening time. The monks are striking the bell, the drum and the iron plates instrument to spread the teachings from Buddha to all over the lives in the world. There were two building for this ceremony under DaewungJeon. One for the bell, and the other of the drum, the iron plate in the form of the cloud and the wooden drum in the shape of the fish. At first a monk stroke the fish wooden drum and beat...

#2 Redefining health for the 21st Century -- by @nonzerosum with a current reward of 64 SBD

The history of healthcare has not ended. Categorising illnesses and identifying their links to a range of pathogens, vectors, and genetic predispositions, has provided humanity with a clear road map for addressing health needs within our species as a whole. This path has served us spectacularly well, lifting countless millions out of suffering and into nearguaranteed long and healthy lives. While we still have some of the path left to walk e.g. neglected tropical diseases, see teemikes r...

#3 Cigarette Butts a Global Environmental Problem -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 60 SBD

Plastic straw bans are all the rage now though mostly in places where they would never end up in the ocean anyway, but the primary source of ocean waste is actually cigarette butts. Made from cellulose acetate fibers, which take decades to break down, cigarette filters have become the most littered object in the world, according to The Ocean Conservancy. The group has been sponsoring beach cleanups for 32 years, and reports that butts make up a third of all collected trash, which is no wond...

#4 Amazing Chocolate Cake -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 59 SBD

There are two kinds of people those who prefer chocolate cake and those who prefer vanilla. Thankfully, everyone in my family is of the former mindset; I come from a long line of chocolate lovers. That is why every birthday in my family is celebrated with this rich, moist, amazing chocolate cake. Ingredients 2 cups sugar cup cocoa powder 1 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder teaspoon salt 2 room temperature eggs 1 and cup milk 2 teaspoons vanilla extr...

#5 The Best Buttercream Recipe -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 58 SBD

I have to admit that I dont find much of a difference between cake made from a box and cake made from scratch, and as far as brownies go, I actually prefer the box version! But when it comes to frosting, the difference between store bought and homemade is so obvious and jarring. Once I learned how easy it is to make my own buttercream, I could never go back to picking a can off the shelf for my cakes. Here is my basic vanilla buttercream recipe, which can be adapted to many different flavo...

#6 SteemFest3 In Cracow I am Coming And I Bring 1UP With Me -- by @flauwy with a current reward of 33 SBD

a Things are sometimes really strange when it comes to synchronistic effects. SteemFest3 happens in Cracow, Poland. I have married my first wife there. And the date is from November 7th to 11th. Both dates I have mentioned in my Master Number 11 post here on Steem as Uranus retrograding back to Aries on th 7th and triple master number 11 33 on November 11th, exactly one hundred years after the armistice of World War One was signed at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh m...

#7 Which categories have you voted on the most this year? -- by @abh12345 with a current reward of 33 SBD

Sold out of pies, but plenty of colourful bars available The top 10 categories by votes from your account. A category is defined by the first tag used in the creation of a post. Some of the dapps will automatic put a default tag as the category for a post, but some utopianio for example have changed this recently. The first tag should try to represent the content of the post, but it is not always easy to get it right. Hopefully, with 8 months of data displayed, we should have a reas...

#8 The Best 90km Ride To Do In Chiang Mai! What You Need To Know -- by @annabanananz with a current reward of 32 SBD

a Hey guys! Today I want to share and talk about one of the best rides to do in Chiang Mai that I highly recommend. Kia ora, my name is Anna and Im a 20yearold vegan cyclist and traveler from Auckland, New Zealand. I love exploring new places and sharing my passions on this platform and anything else that I want to share. Im currently in Thailand and will be heading overseas again soon, so I will continue to share my journeys here. Thanks for watching! Instagram annabanananz a DTubeb...

#9 Missing Cybersecurity Expert Is Latest Mystery Surrounding WikiLeaks -- by @activistpost with a current reward of 32 SBD

a relattachment wpatt175192 class wpimage175192 alt width777 height404 By a Kesel A WikiLeaks associate and wellknown information security author behind Information Security for Journalists has gone missing according to the WikiLeaks Twitter account. Arjen Kamphuis, 47, was last seen in Bod, Norway, 16 days ago on August 20th. According to police, Kamphuis purchased camping equipment and may have gone hiking. The police do not assume a crime; however, they are using a special unit Kr...

#10 Game Viewing at Nairobi Safari Walk A Magical Kenya Wildlife ExperienceDTUBE 107 -- by @elsiekjay with a current reward of 32 SBD

a Hey dtube! Its that time again where I show you guys amazing Tourist Attractions Centers within my City, Nairobi. This time round, I take you guys to the serene and breathtaking Nairobi Safari Walk. Besides its array of wildlife, it is also known for bird viewing, nature walks and also a place for picturesque images. We got to view alot of wildlife such as Rhinos, Hippos, Zebras, Monkeys, Leopards, Buffalos, Antelopes etc. I couldnt have asked for more, enjoy the Vlog guys. El. a D...

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