Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 26 SBD and 1350 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 KNITRIAS PROJECT Week 03 Community -- by @knitrias with a current reward of 38 SBD

In recent days the SteemitBlog launched an initiative calling for community leaders to present applications to receive support for their communities. This initiative takes part in a structural plan known as PoD Proof of Dedication, in which have been set certain roles in the community of Steem to perform different tasks in order to help on the development of the users and projects working on the platform. These roles include community curators, country curators, steem greeters, social...

#2 SHARE YOUR BATTLE Weekly Challenge! Earn Upvotes! OPPORTUNITY -- by @splinterlands with a current reward of 12 SBD

Not feeling so creative? But youve been battling your heart out?! Each week well have a new THEME for the challenge, but always required BATTLES. classpullright Note from Carrie Instead of a specific card this week lets all aim for the weakest enemy! Muahahahah! Youve probably noticed... I LOVE this ability. In real life it would be a very bad human trait, but in the game its awesome. I know that most opportunist monsters are of lower health and speed. How do you deal with this? Who ...

#3 Life is about taking it all in, not halfway. -- by @josevas217 with a current reward of 9 SBD

Life is about taking it all in, not halfway. What generally paralyzes is fear, the not wanting to take risks, living totally restrained, limited, and this in good measure in my opinion implies a great distrust of oneself. Much of this may be due to some things learned from childhood, unfortunately many times children are instilled with fears that are not their own, that is, they are not their own but are taught to be afraid, they are usually fears that parents learned to assume at some...

#4 MemeMonday 62 -- by @freebornangel with a current reward of 8 SBD

Things are finally coming back to a semblance of what was. It is about dang time, iyam. Lets get our memes on, eh? I wonder what I have on my mind, this week? I know one thing is for sure, no week is complete without one of these! Shameful Source source of base pic Now who would have thought that this is where this was headed? sbp Now why is that, I have had some ask. Well, if you knew what I know, you would join me in throwing rocks at cops and running lawyers down in cross...

#5 Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities filld with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, for who mtogether value love -- by @steemrising with a current reward of 7 SBD

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities filld with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless? Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renewd, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me, Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined, The question, O me! so sad, recurrin...

#6 Assassins Creed Retrospective Part 1 -- by @liberosist with a current reward of 6 SBD

Assassins Creed has been a rather unique franchise. In the last 13 years, no other series has evolved and transformed quite like Assassins Creed, while a the same time maintaining lore and thematic consistency. Ubisofts Prince of Persia games in the earlytomid 2000s were highly successful in reinvigorating the franchise. Yet, they wanted to expand some of the ideas into a new IP. The first Assassins Creed was a rather curious concoction. Of course, it had mechanical similarities to Prince ...

#7 Covid19 lockdown day 54 the Big Tree outing to see the 700 year old Yellowood -- by @julianhorack with a current reward of 6 SBD

Greetings and welcome to another edition of The Shape of The Cape with your host Julescape. Despite the new norm of lockdown, I decided to make another visit to my friends, 60km away for the weekend just past. And while sharing their good company, we all went on an outing up the hill to visit the Big Tree, a treasure of a tourist hotspot, here on the Garden Route on the south Cape coast of Africa. Having been under lockdown now for so long, I had neglected my travels and tourist blog posts,...

#8 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...

#9 As the World continue to witness an Economic Depression on an unthinkable scale ....is Silver heading to 700z? -- by @stephenkendal with a current reward of 5 SBD

BigReset Lockdown Economy ....is Silver heading to 700z? Lockdown Economy and 500 million Unemployed? As the World continue to witness an Economic Depression on an unthinkable scale ....is Silver heading to 700z? With everyday that passes an estimated 65 billion per day is wiped off the Global Economy with Debts soaring in the opposite direction. What we are all witnessing is totally unprecedented and unlike anything the World has witnessed in over 300 years. This Economic Depression...

#10 Some days are... -- by @galenkp with a current reward of 3 SBD

Life is a funny old thing...Some days are blue skies, warm sun and beautiful beaches and others are...Well, theyre, lose both your smart phone days! Mine was the latter yesterday unfortunately and you can read about it a if youre inclined to do so. Essentially I lost both of my smart phones, my company supplied work one and my personal one. Not a good day. Its been over 24 hours since that happened and Im starting to get myself under control from an emotional standpoint as Ive been a l...

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