Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 743 SBD and 21224 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 Minecolonies The better Builder! -- by @raycoms with a current reward of 85 SBD

Hi everyone, one of the things I noticed when we had our Patreon competition was that one of the biggest bottlenecks was the speed of the builder. This was due to a number of reasons but mainly due to the numerous trips he has to make and how much he has to walk around in the building he is building. For that reason, I changed a bunch of things around this to improve it. I started by making sure that the builder would not take items with him he doesnt need in his current building phase. ...

#2 Bounty Mission Success Multisignature Transaction Guide Complete -- by @timcliff with a current reward of 49 SBD

What transpired over the past month with regards to multisignature transactions is a true testament to what the Steem community can do if we work together towards a common goal. We now have four great guides on how to use multisignature transactions on Steem!! For those of you who are just interested in getting the guides, you can scroll down to the bottom of the post. For the rest of you, please read on Multisignature transactions are a security feature that requires a transaction to b...

#3 STONEm Frontend Development Update Wallet Manager Screen. -- by @creatrixity with a current reward of 47 SBD

Continuing with the development of the STONE masternodes webclient, our previous update added the masternodes manager screen alongside some very vital constructs and reusable architectural patterns. This is the last screen prototype and is consequently the milestone for the v0.1.0 release of the client. Implement wallet management dashboard screen. Utilize existing documented architectural patterns to keep code footprint minimal. This screen has pretty exciting to work on. The philo...

#4 The Gates in Sshang Gyeo Sa Temple -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 40 SBD

As arriving at Sshang Gyeo Sa temple, what attracted my attention was the arrangement of the gates. As Ive posted several times before, there are lots of gates meaning the order or the structure of Buddhist paradise. Unlike other temples, the gates in this temple were arranged in a row with very close distances. The first thing welcomed me was the stone bridge in front of the one pillar gate. Id like interpret the bridge as the symbol of the border between this and that world. The one ...

#5 A note about thedarkoverlord and censorship on Steemit -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 39 SBD

Do me a favor. The next time some journalist writes a story about how thedarkoverlord was banned off of the Steemit blockchain tell them youre a fucking idiot. I know the names are similar, but Steem is a blockchain Steemit is a development company that allegedly makes blockchain code Steemit.com is a web interface to the Steem blockchain run by Steemit inc. What happened was Steemit is a company. The company has a terms of service. Thedarkoverlords approach to extortion falls outsid...

#6 Blue Juice Krabi restaurant cheap and excellent -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 25 SBD

Blue Juice started out as a hostel that was also a e center but just like any other company that has attempted to have a e shop in Krabitown in the past infinity years, that side of the business failed. However, they changed with the times and are still an excellent guesthouse and also transitioned into focusing on having great food. source What will you find on the menu here? Well they have a bunch of Thai food but seeing as how they are within sight of the night market where al...

#7 Exploratory Analysis Shows World of Opportunity with JSON and STEEM -- by @paulag with a current reward of 25 SBD

The use of Custom JSON field on the STEEM Blockchain is becoming more and more popular. ;From discussion I have read, this field can do almost anything from creating Tokens to holding game information. JSON data is a way of representing objects or arrays. ;It is easy to read, and it is easy to parse. ;Many API calls will return JSON format and many web apps use JSON to easily move information around the internet. Its is therefore no surprise that developers are now using the JSON filed on s...

#8 Albuquerque Museum of Art and History -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 25 SBD

We had a family field trip to the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History today. Growing up, this was always one of my favorite places to visit. I was delighted to share it with my family today. The museum is an awesome blend of local history and art, but it also features a rotating worldclass exhibit. With over 10,000 works of art and almost 30,000 historical artifacts, there was a lot to see. I snapped some photos of the interesting and beautiful things we saw today, but of course, didnt ...

#9 Only In Albuquerque History Gallery -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 24 SBD

During our visit to the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised with their newest permanent exhibit, called Only in Albuquerque History Gallery. In my years away from my beloved hometown, my love for this strange, beautiful, unique place only grew, eventually leading me back to it. This new exhibit did an excellent job of celebrating all of the things that make Albuquerque so singular and so marvelous. altcaptionImage of a man and a toddler visiting th...

#10 Why I Dont Check My Phone in the Mornings Anymore -- by @coruscate with a current reward of 24 SBD

a Hi Friends, I was chatting with revisesociology the script writer for steemonboarding the other day, and he made a comment that really stuck with me. We were talking about script ideas, and he said that the next day was the morning he goes without his phone and so hed pick up the conversation again tomorrow afternoon. I guess Im just so used to automatically checking my phone when I first wake up that I hadnt really considered taking a break from it. One of the things Im rea...

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