Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 3366 SBD and 12483 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 Entering Into Tongdosa Temple in Yangsan Near Busan Metropolis, Korea. -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 86 SBD

Me and my mom had a plan to look around the temple of Tongdosa Temple. Tongdosa temple was very famous for the real body of Buddha. So this temple have been considered one of the holy three jewelry temple in Korea for a long time. This holy trinity in Buddhism is The Buddha, the Dharmateaching, and the Sanghamonk. Tongdosa temple is the temple of the Buddha, because this temple has had the real body of Buddha. This temple was believed to have been built in AD 646 under the Shila Kingdom. ...

#2 Phuket Intl Airport Surprisingly good -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 51 SBD

Phuket is an exceptionally popular island in Thailand. I dont know for certain of this but I would make the case that it is the MOST popular island destination in the entire country. Despite this fact that airport is actually quite small because in the grand scheme of things, even if there are a million people on the island at any given point of time, it isnt really necessary for it to be huge. It was nice to see that it has been designed well and is also very efficient in its desig...

#3 Albuquerque Outdoors the Musical Road and Route 66 to the Manzanitas -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 50 SBD

Albuquerque, NM. Today after my 2 yearold woke up from his afternoon nap, I dropped him off with the inlaws for a playdate with his cousin. I brought some water and my menagerie of dogs along and we planned to make use of yet another beautiful Albuquerque evening by going up into the mountains. I had heard that the foothills are full of rattlesnakes this time of year, coming down off the higher ranges of the Sandias and Manzanitas for the waning desert heat. I also like to go where I proba...

#4 Greek Salad -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 50 SBD

This Greek Salad can be thrown together in mere minutes, making it as easy as it is delicious. This symphony of mediterranean ingredients makes for a tasty, fresh addition to any meal. Serve it on the side, or top it with some protein like grilled tofu or pan fried salmon to make a complete, healthy meal. This salad is so simple and so yummy, after you try it, it will surely find a place in your cooking repertoire. It pairs well with any pasta dish. Ingredients 4 cups mixed greens cup...

#5 Changi Airport Singapore more than a bit of a disappointment. -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 48 SBD

Changi Airport Singapore more than a bit of a disappointment. This is routinely ranked as the number one airport in the world and even the times that it hasnt won the prestigious ranking of gold, it manages to be in the top 3 at least. Well, this has been the case ever since I started paying attention anyway. I have traveled in and out of Singapore many many times over the past 15 years as it is a major connection point for traveling just about anywhere else in the world that you ...

#6 Scoot My new favorite budget airline -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 47 SBD

Overall A fun budget airline with a few understandable flaws Budget airlines are always a gamble. As someone trying to save a bit of money, these travelers need to of course understand that a few of the services are going to go out the window with the dramatic drop in cost associated with their ticket prices this is very understandable and anyone who doesnt realize that a ticket that costs 40 less isnt going to have freeflow booze and meal service is living in dreamland. I underst...

#7 Blockchain It And They Will Come Los Angeles Dodgers Announce New Ethereum Bobbleheads -- by @creativecrypto with a current reward of 41 SBD

class altCryptoBaseballCreativeCrypto.png brIt looks like Major League Baseball has been bit by the blockchain bug! Yesterday The Los Angeles Dodgers MLB baseball team announced that they will hold their firstever Digital Bobblehead Night on September 21st. As part of this unique giveaway, the first 40,000 fans will receive a Bobblehead NonFungible Token depicting their favorite Dodgers players in their Ethereum wallet. These nifty downloads include crowd favorites; Clayton Kershaw, Justi...

#8 National Preparedness Month Starting Your Own Seed Bank -- by @goldendawne with a current reward of 32 SBD

a As my continued series during September; which is National Preparedness Month, I want to discuss the need for people to start their own seed bank saving seeds for future use and how to get it all organized. Image Source Pixabay a DTubebr a IPFS Starting Your Own Seed Bank Gardeners and homesteaders know what it means to harvest seeds from their current garden for future plantings. We also know that using heirloom seeds is important; some say the taste and flavor of ...

#9 Dancing With The Devil -- by @accio with a current reward of 29 SBD

Some people say they cant remember anything that happened around these times, that it was all a blur. I remember everything. It was August 24th, 2010. The moment the line disconnected I turned and ran across the house, stopping dead at the back door looking out at Dad and Wife doing some stuff in the yard. Im not sure if I screamed, it felt like a whisper that the wind carried to him. One word. Just one. Daddy! I cant recall calling my father daddy since that day, or for many years ...

#10 It is very pink but green! -- by @rimicane with a current reward of 26 SBD

a alt br !steemitworldmap 52.127137 lat 11.634181 long It is very pink but green! d3scr The story behind the visit begins as so One lovely year, when my little one was still way too little to suffer the air pressure during the flight, we have decided to get into the car and drive from the UK all the way to Baltics. It is a long journey, I know... but We have done so before and having a baby with us in the car meant we drive while he sleeps and we do something fun when he is aw...

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