Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 2799 SBD and 11925 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 SteemFest Updates Wall of dAppsExpo, a word from Steemit Inc and New Names! -- by @roelandp with a current reward of 183 SBD

TLDR; Dont forget to book a hotelroom dont say i didnt warn ya! Reminder SteemFest ticketprices increases in 2 weeks! This week I was pretty busy with many a targetblankvisa invitation letters because of various philanthropic Steemians giving away Steem andor guiding Steem users from West Africa to come to SteemFest. After 2 years of unsuccessful visa requests I hope finally it will work out. Thus far I have written 20 invitation letters !! for Schengen applicants for SteemFest 2018...

#2 Work as an Open Source Contributor -- by @nothingismagick with a current reward of 58 SBD

An indepth introduction to OpenSource with some specific examples taken from the approach used by the Quasar Framework, as we intend to use this tutorial as training and reference for all forthcoming and existing contributors. Image CC0 by nothingismagick You will learn about the difference between copyright, licensing and attribution You will discover the meaning of FreeLibre and Open Source Software You will find out what the difference is between Permissive and Protective licenses ...

#3 ABQ Brew Reviews The Craftroom -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 50 SBD

Travelling through the desert and need to cool off and quench your thirst? Why not stop by The Craftroom and grab yourself a tall glass of refreshing craft cider. While the location is not very charming, a nondescript industrial complex right off the freeway, the moment you slip inside the cozy interior, this escapes your mind. The Craftroom offers a clean, no fuss comfortable room in which you can sit back and enjoy some delicious cider or beer. The service is excellent prompt, smiling fac...

#4 Pluto is Still A Planet In New Mexico -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 49 SBD

Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet by the worlds astronomical community 12 years ago, not everyone was content to go along with the ruling. On April 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union laid down three conditions for planethood. 2 A Planet has to be big enough to be round a large enough body will have been rounded off by its own gravity. Poor Pluto was doing just fine until rule 3. Since Neptunes gravity influences Pluto, and Pluto shares its orbit with objects in the Kuiper bel...

#5 The Basics of Breakfast Hash -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 48 SBD

Breakfast hash is like the champion of scrambled eggs. Why not take this classic egg dish and give it an extra boost of flavor with added vegetables? In this rendition of breakfast hash, I took advantage of the season hatch chile harvest, and added a few tablespoons of this chile pepper for a tasty kick of spice. The thing I love most about breakfast hash is its versatility. Whatever veggies you have on hand are sure to be great in this dish. If there are minimal leftovers from the previous...

#6 Introducing the Collective Intelligence Platform -- by @co-in with a current reward of 46 SBD

This is a new platform built on Steem to serve a variety of niches. Welcome to CI I, anarchyhasnogods, have built a platform for Steem. Collective Intelligence is a new platform built to work with the Steem blockchain. At the moment there are a limited amount of features, but what feature are available are powerful on their own. The focus of the platform is its alternative model of curation and a purposemade trending feature. Going forward we intend to expand into a variety of oth...

#7 Supporting the Steem Social Media Blast Day with Tim Cliff, PromoSteem OracleD -- by @brayan256 with a current reward of 38 SBD

Hello everyone, sharing about steem as recommended on social media platforms was really an amazing creed so as to attract crypto investors and lay grounds for steem being among the top 20. If iniduals can post on social media platforms about whats happening in their lives and also post about other things then why not post about the steem blockchain on a daily basis too. There are people who will ignore your posts but when you frequently post and talk about the goodness of steem, tr...

#8 DreamHack Live Fortnite Fortnite 15k tournament in 9 hours! -- by @realseb with a current reward of 38 SBD

Just click on the picture to join my livestream on Steemits Livestreaming APP! DLIVE! WERE LIVE AT DREAMHACK DAY 1! 15k Fortnite tournament tomorrow morning at 9AM! Suppose to stream earlier but had a accident on the highway, but were here now! So weve done a 5 SBD, 10 SBD and 20 SBD GIVEAWAY should we do a 2530SBD GIVEAWAY for my followers? What do you think? Let me know in the comments New custom ANIMATED overlay by Mr.O! His Profile here check him out! I wanna shout out to all of...

#9 My Dream Game Crafting And Gathering -- by @enjar with a current reward of 36 SBD

As someone who enjoys crafting and gathering with a whole host of other mechanics in games. I find many games out there just lack any fun in these kinds of activities. Many times the crafters and gathers are more like the second class citizens. You would even go years of having no real need for them other than an odd item or two. While I understand sometimes you just need 100 generic vials of a base ingredient to craft a potion. Something truly amazing should take time, knowledge and ef...

#10 Catherine Tastes Plums in Italian Fruit Orchard -- by @homestead-guru with a current reward of 34 SBD

a Catherine Tastes fresh plums at a Northern Italy Agriculture school for children in middle and high school. Students learn to grow and care for fruits here on the or land, and they eat from the trees growing on site. They are also taught how to care for chickens, cattle, compost, and more. In depth interviews in Italian will be posted in the future! The school is called Scuole Salesiane Lombriascoand they can be found online here Please check out our Facebook, YouTube and Steemit...

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