Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 1025 SBD and 12040 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 Tonight Tensor Blocktrades Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show every Wed 7 PM UTC -- by @jedigeiss with a current reward of 61 SBD

Utopian.io and MSP Waves are proud to present the Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show, coming to you live every Wednesday at 7 PM UTC on MSP Waves. Interested in Open Source on the Steem blockchain and beyond? Looking to hear some inspiring stories and discussions about the Open Source ecosystem? Tune in to the Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show! First of all, we got a new timeslot on MSP Waves 7 9 PM UTC. Tonight, it is a pleasure to present again 2 very interesting guests, we have show...

#2 Special Buddhist Ceremony in Whaeomsa Temple -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 48 SBD

a When I entered into the temple, it was the time of the ceremony. It seems that the Buddhist ceremony is performed in the basis of reading the teaches by Buddha like singing a song. The rhythm of reading the teaches by Buddha was as same as that of Korean traditional folk music. It was so comfortable and peaceful for me. The ceremony was held in every hall of the temple. I took an action video of the ceremony to introduce the feeling of the rhythm of the Buddhist praying. The most im...

#3 Curie Author Showcase November 27th, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 35 SBD

In the spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following o...

#4 Small Business Saturday in Virginia -- by @ivyriane with a current reward of 33 SBD

I have lived in Virginia for 12 years now and I try to support the local economy as often as I can so Small Business Saturday is right up my alley! We have quite a few local businesses here that I choose to purchase from rather than the large corporate stores. I plan on going home to New York for Christmas next month to visit family so I had quite a few people to shop for and now everything that I needed to buy is purchased. We have local craft and antiques dealers here that I frequent bec...

#5 Update on Trade War Between US and China -- by @ascorphat with a current reward of 33 SBD

President Donald Trump has stated that he plans to go ahead with increasing tariffs on about 200 billion worth of Chinese goods and that duties will be slapped on all remaining imports from China if negotiations with Xi Jinping Chinas leader dont result in a trade deal that benefits the United States. President Trump sat down with the Wall Street Journal on Monday November 26th and said that he is more than prepared to add tariffs on 267 billion in Chinese shipments if a deal cannot be rea...

#6 Ozark TV Show final thoughts for season 1 -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 27 SBD

Last night I finished season 1 of a series that I bingewatched over the course of 3 days. I would have done it much faster but I was staying with someone that had to go to work in the mornings and well, she wanted to watch the episodes as well and it would have been NOT COOL for me to cheat and watch them early. class pullrightbr As you might expect season 1 of Osark is 10 episodes and for the most part they managed to keep them relatively clutter free. There was some unnecessary fi...

#7 Actifit Updates New Daily Random 2x Reward. Fitness Trainers. Top Daily Actifitters. Delegation Status. -- by @actifit with a current reward of 27 SBD

This update represents a compilation of the recent news, updates and projections about our Actifit project, including top actifitters for the preceding voting cycle, as well as updates on our account and delegations ! We are delighted to introduce today a new special daily reward that goes out to a random actifitter! On a daily basis, and throughout our voting round, our bot will randomly choose one actifitter who has a report eligible for rewards, without any additional specific criteria,...

#8 The steemmonsters site on beempy is adapted to the new gameplay -- by @holger80 with a current reward of 26 SBD

I adapted for the new battle rules of steemmonsters. Elorating of all played decks are shown for all possible rulesets and manacaps Each played deck cards and levels is stored into a database as unique string e.g. 491,481,471,511,521,621. The first number is the card id and the second number the card level. In the next step, I calculate the ELO ranking while handling each deck as player. The ELO rating is calculated by and where RA is the rating of deck A, RB is the rating of deck B...

#9 Sandia Watermelon -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 26 SBD

We are always waxing quixotic about our beautiful and beloved Sandia Mountains that border the eastern edge of Albuquerque. For those who are not familiar with the Spanish language, sandia translates to watermelon. It is believed that the mountains were named after the fruit because at sunset the suns glow on the mountain paints them a lovely pink shade reminiscent of watermelon. The pink hue is due to the granite that forms the core of the mountain. An alternate theory regarding the na...

#10 Oolys Chunky Paint Sticks -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 26 SBD

Like most children, our two year old is artistically inclined and will sit and draw for hours on end if given the chance. Because he loves to color with focus that I dont see in many adults, we are happy to continually expand his art supplies and try out new tools for his artistic projects. We found these really awesome paint sticks in the gift shop at Meow Wolf, and having never really seen anything like them, we were inclined to grab a set for our little artist. Of all the marker, cray...

So? What is your opinion about these non-bot trending posts? Before I forget, do not miss out on checking my other top list of DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS to help minnows and promote good content! Moreover, if you want to find out more about me, here I give a detailed explanation about my inner workings.

Your Customized Top List

If you liked this top list, maybe you are also interested in the trending pages for different tags without bid bots and other cool custom adjustments to your feed. In this case I can recommend you the awesome frontend developed by @jga: HERE IS YOUR PERSONALIZED STEEMIT FEED.

You can Help and Contribute

By upvoting and resteeming this top list, you help covering the server costs and finance further development and improvements.

NEW: You may further show your support for me and all my daily truffle picks by following my curation trail on SteemAuto!

Delegate and Invest in the Bot

If you feel generous, you can delegate Steem Power to me and boost my daily upvotes on the truffle posts in my other top list. In return, I will provide you with a small compensation for your trust in me and your locked Steem Power. Half of my daily SBD and STEEM income will be paid out to all my delegators proportional to their Steem Power share. Payouts will start 3 days after your delegation.

Click on one of the following links to delegate 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, or even 5000 Steem Power. Thank You!

Cheers,

TrufflePig