Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 5326 SBD and 11117 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 Maitreya Buddha in Beopjoosa Temple, The Tallest in Korea -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 87 SBD

There was the very tall Buddha statue standing at the left side of the Palsangjeon pagoda. It is said that this statue had been made in Shilla dynasty more than 1400 years ago. But it was confiscated by Choson Dynasty to rebuild Gyeongbokkung palace which was fired ad destroyed during the Japanese invasion during 1592 1597. That Buddha statue was used to make coin to buy the materials for rebuilding the palace. I took several shoots from different directions. It was ridiculous t...

#2 Jemez Historical Site -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 48 SBD

About an hour and ten minutes north of Albuquerque in the Jemez Mountains 1.5 hours east of Santa Fe lies the Jemez Historic Site where you can find the remnants of the 16thcentury Gusewa Pueblo and San Jose de los Jemez, a 17thcentury Spanish colonial mission. Designated as a National Historic Landmark, it is the ancestral site of the nearby Jemez Pueblo and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Coming from the south, you will first travel through the Zia Pueblo on ...

#3 Last Winters Drought Still Affecting NM Trout -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 48 SBD

Drought conditions have led to Northern New Mexicos upper Pecos River recent fish kill, unusual for these colder waters. The state Department of Game and Fish has already noted a decline in brown and rainbow trout. Despite the greater than usual rains the state received during late summer, the unusually dry winter has left reservoirs all over the state with critically low supplies. Pecos River water levels are around half of the norm for this time of year, official surveys. These low leve...

#4 Coconut Macroons -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 46 SBD

If you are looking for the delightfully bright colored, melt in your mouth, French macrons, my apologies; you wont find that recipe here. Instead you will find a recipe for one of the easiest, most addictive treats in my repertoire. Coconut fans and glutenfree followers rejoice, these pastries will become your new favorite dessert. With five simple ingredients and a pinch of salt and an easy to follow recipe, youll have no trouble creating these magical macaroons yourself. Ingredients 1...

#5 Umbash the king of the swamp -- by @papersmell with a current reward of 43 SBD

here comes Umbash, a great old swampgiant that lives in the endless swamps of Nuur. his arrival is welcomed by a courageous swampdweller that approaches him in a small boat and plays a little fanfare on a tiny trumpet. hopefully Umbash will bless the village of the swamp people with a lot of fish... started out with a crude greyscale sketch of the scene. while painting i kept flipping the image horizontally all the time. that way it is easier to see errors. i used the levels command ...

#6 Underwater worlds -- by @shaka with a current reward of 41 SBD

Greetings Steemians! A couple of weeks ago I visited a show aquarium which is setup and maintained by a private association of hobby aquarists. I have already visited quite a number of professional zoo aquariums. Many of those often impress with particularly unusual and sometimes very large species, whose keeping and care would exceed the possibilities of private aquarists. However, I was deeply impressed by the design of the inidual tanks in this privately operated aquarium. With ...

#7 DROWNING A comic where I try to explain how I feel -- by @lovesoldier69 with a current reward of 37 SBD

Well, its been a while since I last posted anything, huh. A little over two weeks or something like that, lol. Oh well, were just going to ignore that ; This comic took me four days to draw it maybe, Im not sure. Honestly I think I could have done it in two days, but I havent felt very motivated to draw lately. At first I didnt really know what to draw but at the moment I thought of something, it was as if my hands were disconnected from my brain. It has been a couple of frustrat...

#8 The guide for the rookie Illustrator V8. Color Theory! -- by @kookyan with a current reward of 35 SBD

classpullright Hello! Welcome to Guide 8 about color theory, you will learn the difference between RGB and CMYK How to handle the color palettes correctly, and many other things. classpullleft The theory of color is a group of basic rules in the mixture of colors to achieve the desired effect by combining them, is a sensation produced by the reflection of light in matter and transmitted by the eye to the brain. The matter captures the wavelengths that make up the light except those ...

#9 Have been roadtrippin, windsurfing and competing. BWA Avon epic event plus a Garden Update -- by @alfie-hart with a current reward of 34 SBD

So been a busy September for windsurfing, with an awesome forecast the week before the 2nd round of the BWA tour I decided to take time out from film making and gardening and got out and about around the Welsh coast enjoying windsurfing sessions with friends. All photos courtesy of Olly Wood The BWA Avon event near Bournemouth on the South coast of the UK normally struggles for good conditions but this year, 2018 it delivered . . . This video shows the action from the first day, which I...

#10 The Rise Of The Soundcloud Rapper Would You Tattoo Your Face For A Million Dollars? -- by @cryptogee with a current reward of 33 SBD

Every generation believes that it is the best, and the one before it was old and stuffy, and the one after it is weird and lame. This is clearly reflected in the music industry. Rock Roll was hated by the older generation of its day and was often demonised. Later as the genre morphed into Heavy Metal, and the Rock Roll generation matured, so too did they echo the wails of their parents. In the same way that their parents claimed that watching Elvis Presleys gyrating pelvis was a corr...

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