Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 25 SBD and 798 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 Eternal Game -- by @dobartim with a current reward of 10 SBD

Meaning gives light to the essence of life circling the obstacles and challenges of our decisions, we have found excuses that leave us in dark waves of negative energy as success awaits us on the other side of the paradise coast. Rules change in the face of quick ideas, morality becomes a flexible currency through words of consolation and happiness. The vicious circle takes us to the next level of our consciousness as we solve the mosaic of key issues, the playful dance dances on the po...

#2 Steem Inktober 2019 Event Winners from Day 14 16 -- by @ocd with a current reward of 9 SBD

classtextjustifyHey painters, drawers, illustrators, sketchers, cartoonists and creatives out there! Inktober is here and everyone around the web is joining this worldwide event, and Steem is no exception. The Operation Curation and Decentralization OCD partnering with Creativecoin want you to join and get support for your art pieces! This event is for everyone whos a visual artist and wants to join the Inktober event and also for newbies who want to venture into the creative world that ...

#3 What steem community needs from you ! -- by @clixmoney with a current reward of 9 SBD

Watch on 3Speak I decided to create a video and to write a post to share what I learned from steem community being here for almost 2 years and half. I learned a lot about the steem community by reading posts and comments and from the behaviour of steemians. Even being here for so long, I still do some mistakes that the community doesnt accept at all. So, I want to share with newcomers and all who are here what exactly the community needs from you. Of course no spam and n...

#4 Cairenn Original Song -- by @ricardomello with a current reward of 8 SBD

Good morning community! Today I present this chill mood song made with the trial version of FL Studio. I dedicated a little more time and patience to this composition, and I looked for new sounds that I had not tried before as the effect of keyboard whistles. I am learning to use the program, knowing the plugins and understanding how to structure the songs. . The trial version does not allow me to save the projects, so once I start a song I must finish it immediately. I plan to purchase th...

#5 My favourite corporate job that I shot over the Summer -- by @ashtv with a current reward of 7 SBD

a Over the summer I shot and cut this highlights video for UK betting company SkyBet. It was covering their Summer annual business get together called The Gathering. I wrote about the insane location of the event, and a bit about how ace it was over on this post here back in July 2019. This is the fourth year that I have been asked to shoot coverage of the event; and honestly the events, themes and locations get even more insane in a good way! It was held at a film set for TV show Vi...

#6 Amazing Benefits Of Dates -- by @healthdear with a current reward of 6 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Benefits of Dates From Lowering Cholesterol to Promoting Beautiful Skin Dates are also known as Khajoor and are considered to have many amazing health benefits that we will explore in todays video. From Lowering Cholesterol to Promoting Beautiful Skin Dates have got it all. Having 2 Dates a day can energize your body, along with balancing your cholesterol levels. Dates are also a rich source and FULL of nutrients, Protein Vitamin Rich. Thats not all Explore...

#7 I sold all my Bitcoin for stable tokens -- by @dana-edwards with a current reward of 6 SBD

width1280 height877 By looking at chart data, sentiment data, and volume, Bitcoin is entering a bear market. This bear market could last for 4 or even 6 months. The halving is around 6 months away. In addition, I do not think alt season is going to happen this time around and Ill explain why. In 2017 we had a bull run which brought Bitcoin to almost 20,000 and brought Ethereum to over 1400. The bull run was very short lived though and peaked within a course of 30 days. The bear market cor...

#8 Building up Steem for 2020 -- by @steevc with a current reward of 5 SBD

a I saw pennsif is promoting an initiative to talk about what we can do to make Steem big next year. I do not see a lot of Steem2020 entries, so thought I would do a quick video about what I have been doing. I am offering to create accounts for free via other social media with limited success so far. I show how you can do this if you have enough resource credits. I just installed a screen recorded on my Linux system and the audio is not quite right, so my voice may sound a little odd. I ...

#9 U.S. Senator Calls For Halting TSA Facial Recognition In Airports As Tech Rolls Out In Schools Nationwide -- by @activistpost with a current reward of 5 SBD

a relattachment wpatt188229 class wpimage188229 alt width777 height407 By a Kesel A U.S. Senator called for an end to facial recognition in airports due to lack of oversight on the technology. Meanwhile, facial recognition is spreading across the U.S. in schools everywhere according to a report. Sen. Ed Markey, DMass., brought up several issues with facial recognition technologies and warned against moving forward without sufficient protections for data being collected, during a heari...

#10 Its Sunday 20th October 2019. Its raining! How is your weekend? Drop a link for chance of resteem, upvote and tweet -- by @felt.buzz with a current reward of 5 SBD

a Today I have a little bit of a rant, in the rain, about whether there is true debate being allowed, or whether discussion and dissenting views are being shut down just by being ignored. Today, I have walked the dogs, served breakfast and seen the guests off. I have three rooms to clean, my spanish and guitar to practice, some felting to be done, and I need to find time to do the weekend freewrite. What are your plans for the day? Peace and love to you all. Steem on! Motivate...

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