Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 2276 SBD and 14439 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 This is how we roll fly -- by @smallsteps with a current reward of 41 SBD

Daddy posted some shots of me jumping on the bed and Mummy told him not to put any bad ones online. Bad photos of me?? Impossible! Actually, there was one where I was mid landing and my slightly chubbier than the average bear cheeks were still moving downward as the rest of me was starting the bounce up again. I look like a cute 70 year old grandma but, Daddy decided I might regret blockchaining it when I am older. He is worried about me suing him for all his crypto. It is funny when chi...

#2 Dae Wung Jeon Hall of Jeon Deung Sa in Gang Wha Do Island -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 40 SBD

Each building has its own characteristics. In the Dae Wung Jeon hall of Jeon Deung Sa case, there were one interesting point for looking around. That was the wooden sculptures under the eaves. There were wooden sculptures of people shape supporting the roof of the hall in every corners. There was a story relating to the sculptures. When a carpenter was building this hall long time ago, there was a woman who prepared meals for the carpenter. The carpenter loved her, but suddenly sh...

#3 itizens are usually peaceful people ! Day 316 ! -- by @clixmoney with a current reward of 34 SBD

a In this video I decided to talk about the citizens in all around the world. Most of us are one of them and we just want to live a good life. Citizens are usually peaceful people, they want to have a work and to take care about their families. If we watch news, we see a lot of troubles in the world, but if we dont watch that, we will never hear about that. Im not watching news for a while and lately Ive watched some news and most of them are problematic. Lets take an example of...

#4 The Worlds Premier Liberty Event Is Changing The World VIDEO -- by @dollarvigilante with a current reward of 24 SBD

About a week before Anarchapulco 2019 officially kicked off, tragedy occurred. A young man who was loved by many in the anarchist community here in Acapulco was killed. Stories quickly began to circulate in the mainstream media about the murder of John Galton. But what should have been a time for mourning and respect was quickly twisted and weaponized by journalists as a smear campaign against freedomlovers and anarchists. Fake news website The Daily Beast ran the headline, John Galto...

#5 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Dogs, Riders, Lobsters Part 614 -- by @velimir with a current reward of 23 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...

#6 Original Art Photography Series by velimir 577 Red Water -- by @velimir with a current reward of 22 SBD

a titlesource ur.com A colour fountain. A moment caught when almost everything was red. Appears very aggressive against the dark background, yet so tender because of the curves. 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 f...

#7 Beer Lab Chiang Mai microbrewlovers dream come true -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD

So I dont normally go to these kinds of places because I am aware of the fact that it is going to be considerably more expensive than I am accustomed to paying for booze. I am more of a whatever lager is cheapest type guy, but I had a friend visiting who likes this sort of stuff so I figured I would splash out some cash and do something special. The first thing I noticed about this joint is that it was very busy despite the fact that it was 830pm on a Tuesday. I would imagine that it...

#8 Steemeum Daily miner and statistics post 179 -- by @steemeum with a current reward of 21 SBD

; ; Steemeum is a virtual mobile miner app based on Proof of Time, that invites mobile mining enthusiasts to the Steem Blockchain, and helps those new but also existing users to get a bit of Steem dollars in there wallets to spend in the Steem Blockchain and the related projects running on top of Steem as well the internal and external markets. At the moment we are in a cosed beta and ask people to test the app, and this can still be entered, by joining the Steemeum Discord server A...

#9 SiriChai in Chiang Mai Seriously good, seriously cheap -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD

Located on a side street that it is pretty unlikely someone is just going to happen upon, SiriChai restaurant specialized in quickly made rice and noodle dishes at an extremely low price. To call this place lowkey would be an understatement. They make very little effort to advertise and after being in this place I was a bit lost I can say that they dont really need to change anything. The furnishings are basic and their locations isnt the best, but they tend to attract a big crowd o...

#10 MAD Bar Chiang Mai This is more my type of place -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD

When it comes to a night out drinking I am more of a fan of places that have expensive options but primarily focus on cheap food and drinks with some entertainment going on that isnt really in your face or too loud. MAD Bar fits this description perfectly. I recently wrote a blog entry about an expensive yet nice craft beer place and how it was fun, but the cost of the items on the menu made it impossible for me to really enjoy myself there. I am the type of guy that goes out to eat a...

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