Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 2453 SBD and 16466 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 Outside of Geuk Lak Bo Jeon Hall in Mu Wi Sa Temple -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 48 SBD

It looked like humble building at first look, but this building seemed to have a great beauty and history. Mu Wi Sa temple wouldve been more than 1300 years old. Interest thing was there was no record that this temple had been fired during the wars through a long history. If this temple did not suffer the catastrophe, then Geuk Lak Bo Jeon Hall would be the oldest wooden building in Korea. Geuk Lak Bo Jeon Hall was serving for Amitabha Buddha in Buddhist paradise. I could not enter i...

#2 A CDN for Steem.Ninja Development Update -- by @steem.ninja with a current reward of 45 SBD

As many of you know OracleD recently released steem.ninja. It offers a broad variety of services on the Steem blockchain. So far it allows easy onboarding for every website, to buy a delegation with your creditdebit card and soon will allow you to quickly top up your Steem balance with your card. We received amazing feedback and responses from the community. Thus we will continuously improve the services provided. Since we released the new website steem.ninja we got more and more messa...

#3 Anarchapulco Speaker David Icke Banned From An Entire Continent -- by @dollarvigilante with a current reward of 34 SBD

Enemy of the State Its not just a 90s blockbuster film starring Will Smith in our 21st century Orwellian style government, anyone can be the next target. Since launching The Worlds Premier Liberty Event five years ago, Ive seen firsthand how anyone who makes enough waves in standing up against the powers that shouldnt be can quickly fall victim to targeted harassment, arrest, stalking, censorship, banning, visa cancellations, and so much more. One of the most recent notable victims i...

#4 VLOG spinning, diytube now nonprofit, dsound and more -- by @tibfox with a current reward of 33 SBD

a classpullrightclick to watch video In this video I literally spin my balls for you and I am talking about other stuff in my life and on the blockchain! diytube is now nonprofit and pays back every rewards to the delegators! This is happening every week some hours before the weekly curation summary. If you want to delegate to the service Feel free to do it or ask me in the comments how this is working ; Mentioned nosdos dsound vincy sodom runicar diytube dtube Music atom ra...

#5 The Time Is Now -- by @theycallmedan with a current reward of 31 SBD

a WARNING I swear enough in this one to make a sailor blush! Do so much ppl ask questions Why? Whatever I invest in I treat it like Im the ownercreator. I remember in football I was the only one that would sprint as fast as I could during after practice laps. Soon everyone sprinted because it became socially unacceptable to jog. Gotta take a bite and run with it. Dont let circumstances stagnate you. Life isnt meant to be fair; you get what you TAKE! THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE; THIS ...

#6 First Steem Meetup in 2019 Resteem and Win Gifts! -- by @partiko with a current reward of 27 SBD

Hello Steemians and Partiko lovers! We are excited to announce that the first Steem meetup in San Francisco is going to take place next week! We have a lot of exciting stuff for you! Thursday Feb 28, 2019 630 to 830 PM Starfish San Francisco 1535 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 630 to 700 PM Networking 700 to 730 PM Recap of latest development in the Steem community 730 to 800 PM Blockchain business model review SteemMonsters v.s. Steemit 800 to 830 PM Sneak peek into the future Steem Smart...

#7 The Lost Adams 10 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 22 SBD

In 1888, the Tenney ranch near St John, Arizona received some unexpected company. About 15 miles from the New Mexico border, near the Datil Mountains, the Tenneys didnt get too many visitors. Nevertheless, when two wagons pulled up one day, the ranchers allowed the driver and his family to camp out for a few days, along with their horses, around 20 cows, and an Indian farmhand a relation of his Native wife. altImage result for datil mountains Datil Mountains, New Mexico. This man turne...

#8 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Wax Portraits Part 609 -- by @velimir with a current reward of 22 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, inspirationa...

#9 In the jungle air -- by @smallsteps with a current reward of 22 SBD

For the last 6 months I have struggled with having a near constant flu and for a long time, was unable to sleep through the night without waking up coughing and spluttering. The last few weeks however, have been pretty good. There are two potential reasons for the improvement or, a combination of both. I began using a different inhaler which seems to have helped the infection in my chest and, Daddy bought a humidifier for my room. The picture is from the machine. It is pretty humid in my...

#10 Steem Alliance Town Hall Q A Sunday, February 24th 8pm UTC -- by @steemalliance with a current reward of 22 SBD

We are in the second week of Stage One of the Official Request For Proposals. There have already been a few proposals announced and expect more this week. You can find all proposals in the The Steem Alliance Discord Server under the currentproposals channel or by simply searching the foundationproposal or proposalcollaboration tags. The goal of this process is to get the iniduals designing these proposals as much feedback as possible, so this weeks Town hall will open up the fl...

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