Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 24 SBD and 1028 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 Thankuni Leaf -- by @ospro with a current reward of 15 SBD

This thankuni leaf is a medicinal plant rich in medicinal properties. All the people of rural Bengal know this page. Conscious people of the city are attached to the balcony tub, on the roof of the house, for its quality. Thankuni leaves are used in many ways. In the village it is found in various places near roads, across ponds, near lands. Thanksgiving is upon us, which means the holiday season is in full swing. Its leaves are green. The leaves are small. This tree is evergr...

#2 How about we get naked? Poem -- by @jgb with a current reward of 15 SBD

Theres a lot of mystery and embarrassment in the nude thing, To be as we came into the world, It seems to be a sinful thing most of the time, Lets be honest, though, and cut the crap. Source Without focusing only on the nakedness of the body, Wed only be on the surface, But the reality of all those moments, Its just that our insecurities get in the way. Few human beings are completely satisfied, In the ways that nature has given them, If I were to make this a report, When I fin...

#3 Tau Internet Champion of the Knowledge Markets -- by @dana-edwards with a current reward of 15 SBD

Knowledge markets and Agoras Intuitively many people already know what a knowledge market is. If you break it down to questions and answers then you can think of many problems where in order to solve the problem you have a list of questions and in order to answer a particular question relevant to solving your problem you need certain knowledge. It is known that someone or something somewhere has the missing piece to the knowledge puzzle necessary for you to solve your problem. Examples...

#4 MidLife Angst Part 2 -- by @gazisahadat618 with a current reward of 14 SBD

I was musing on the purpose of life and was so deeply immersed in my thoughts that it took the sound of a honking car horn to bring me back to the presentI had crossed Bay Street against a red light and had wandered onto the university campus and was just down the street from my old residence. It was a drizzly fall afternoon with the air pungent from the acrid scent of maples and rain. I had forgotten the joy of inhaling the incense of fall, and couldnt recall the last time I stopped to pi...

#5 Covid19 lockdown day 37 Nations crumble but Bitcoin will thrive -- by @julianhorack with a current reward of 7 SBD

Time to realize that we cant save this dying economy, this dying culture, this dying dollar hegemony. We cant save it but can only walk away from it as it dies an inevitable death. The old world died last month under lockdown. And more death and destruction is still to come. This is not over...it will take years. ...weak wifi so no pic upload Petrol bombs burning down the Lebanon central bank. Armed militia on the streets of Michigan demanding the end of lockdown. All potentially ineffecti...

#6 Community and Authorship -- by @fam.steemzzang with a current reward of 6 SBD

Steemit is a social network that cannot be separated from authorship. If you understand this platform you definitely understand what content you should write there to make it more interesting and useful for the reader. Each post that you write must have their own character, but you cannot ignore the correct writing rules and language. Every medium that you use is the full right for the writer to sort content. Good content is at least easily understood by readers. Like blogs in general, wr...

#7 Education Community -- by @steemiteducation with a current reward of 6 SBD

There are over 60 million teachers and 750 million students in the world today. We need to bring them to the Steem Blockchain. Source Steemiteducations goal is to empower educators to empower their students and to help provide an education to anyone with a desire to learn regardless of geographic location or economic status. Our dreams are huge. Some day, we plan to be able to Offer content courses Develop educational technology and apps Share lesson plans Provide howto and tutor...

#8 Splinterlands Weekly Curation Challange! Share your posts! Win Upvotes! -- by @splinterlands with a current reward of 6 SBD

!Copy of Contest Time!!!.png Splinterlands is MANUALLY CURATING! travelgirl clove71 isaria carrieallen All of us, plus aggroed yabapmatt and other Splinterlands Team Members when they have a chance, will be seeking out AMAZING Splinterlands content. Amazing. We arent looking for a pic of your daily rewards... Unless you can somehow wow us within that. We want creative content! We want statistical content! We want fan fiction and art! The upvotes will come from the OLD steemmonsters a...

#9 Auragraph To Learn To Trust -- by @in2itiveart with a current reward of 5 SBD

Original Drawing STEEMIANS PLEASE USE THE SIGIL IF IT WORKS FOR YOU! Here is your auragraph enclosed the oracle reading said that you have an obstacle in your path having to do with an ending which has you at a crossroads... Oracle Reading The solution is that you let God be the Director of your life, then things will go much better for you, because you will always know what to do when you have an ending and come to a crossroads because you will be guided by a Power greater than y...

#10 Die now! die now! In this Love, die; when you have died in this Love, you will all receive new life. Die now, die now, and do not fear this death, for you will come forth frombeauty in all -- by @steemrising with a current reward of 5 SBD

Die now! die now! In this Love, die; when you have died in this Love, you will all receive new life. Die now, die now, and do not fear this death, for you will come forth from this earth and seize the heavens. Die now, die now, and break away from this carnal soul, for this carnal soul is as a chain and you are as prisoners. Take an axe to dig through the prison; when you have broken the prison you will all be kings and princes. Die now, die now before the beauteous King; when you have...

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