Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 766 SBD and 20881 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 Phishing Warning -- by @steemcleaners with a current reward of 79 SBD

Phishing has restarted on Steem. Hackers have produced hundreds of comments using over a dozen different stolen accounts. The comments have malicious links and are written in a way to entice and trick users to click on them. This is an example of a phishing comment. A comment like the one above will take you away from Steemit or any other Steem front end. It will take you to a website thats made to look like a legitimate service. It is actually a fake website. The fake website is d...

#2 Powerdown Stopped and a thank you! -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 45 SBD

Hey Ned, Glad to see that the powerdown has stopped. I know it restarted back on programmatic selling, and I have no qualms with that. Thanks for stopping the major powerdown. I think its an important step to healing the ide between Steemit and frustrated witnesses, large stake holders, and sections of the community at large. I want to express my gratitude not only for that, but also your changes regarding how youre interacting with the community. I expressed 4 major problems a few...

#3 The Memorial Ceremony Hall at the End of the Spirits Road in Seo Oh Neng Tomb, Korea -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 30 SBD

There was a Memorial ceremony hall at the end of the road for the spirit. This kind of building was very unique style in Korean traditional architecture. So I took several photos from different direction. Impressive thing was the stone steps and the patterns carved on the side of the steps. This patterns was carved after the clouds. It meant that the building was located on the cloud. In my guess, the clouds on the side of the steps meant that this hall was built on that world. ...

#4 What Most Wont Tell You About Success -- by @theycallmedan with a current reward of 28 SBD

a Watch at 1.25x speed for a better viewing pleasure! A few shifts. Life accepts excuses as quickly as the mall excepts visa. Watering the plant see no roots stop watering. 90 of ppl Im not on that, Dont tell me the statistics. 50 of marriages fail Im not on that 1 of the world are millionaires Im not on that 1 of the world has a six pack About luck. Some get lucky and flaunt it. ersification preserves wealth does not create it. Jack Twiter said look at what people do with op...

#5 Make Your Own Pizza Bar -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 22 SBD

In my opinions, the best kinds of parties involve pizza. Were not big football fans, so instead of watching the big game and grubbing out over nachos, we invited a few other nonfootball crazed friends over and had a pizza making party in place of a Super Bowl party. If you are inclined to do the same, we found that making several custom pizzas to please a crowd was much less expensive than purchasing a variety of pizzas. And the results were awesome, better than any ordered pizza because...

#6 Easy NoYeast Pizza Dough -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 22 SBD

If you want to dish up fantastic pizza creations at home, you have to start from the bottom up. A great pizza dough is the foundation of a great pizza. This recipe is the shortcut version, no yeast, no dough hook attachment on your standing mixer, no long wait for rising. The results yield a pizza crust both flaky and soft. The dough forms a pizza base that cuts into about 8 pizza slices. Ingredients 1 cup flour 2 tablespoons olive oil teaspoon salt teaspoon garlic powder cup m...

#7 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Lego Worlds Wonder Wheel and things behind that Circus Part 591 -- by @velimir with a current reward of 21 SBD

a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! For good, inspirational r...

#8 Original Art Photography Series by velimir 553 Frozen Lake -- by @velimir with a current reward of 21 SBD

a titlesource ur.com In this double exposure nature is presented with a strong touch of the seventies. I managed to achieve that look and feel. Why? Oh, because I can! D Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishon...

#9 Godaphro Fearsome Critter -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 20 SBD

The Godaphro is a fearsome critter of lumberjack folklore that has a different appearance, based on the origin of the story. Some said the Goadphro resembles a small deer with rabbit ears. Others say the Godaphro is a large reptilian creature. Both stories state that the animal has a set of giant fangs and uneven legs. Because the creature has uneven legs, it is well suited to hills and mountains. Like many of the fearsome critters, the Godaphro is an apt climber. Equipped with a strong an...

#10 The Failure of Education -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 20 SBD

Many advocate education as the panacea for what ails us. However, it is worth noting that our populace is the best educated its ever been. Its interesting to recall that it wasnt until 1965 that 50 of the USAs adult population over 25 years old had a HIGH SCHOOL education. The current number is 88. Yet our society seems a heck of a lot dumber and insane than it did in 1965, at least in some ways. Could education be the PROBLEM? Perhaps credentialed is a more truthful term... our popula...

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