Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 3 SBD and 1442 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 7 Common Mistakes that Newcomers do in Steemit -- by @steem-sri.lanka with a current reward of 56 SBD

Steemit Platform always supports its users according to the quality of the posts. When the newcomer comes to the Steemit Platform they have no idea where to start if they havent been guided by someone. So we have already made a post about Where To Start Guide. But We have seen most Newcomers make several mistakes since they havent the correct idea about the Steemit platform. So we thought to point out the basic mistakes that are made by newcomers during their first days. Less Use O...

#2 Learnwithsteem 5 Proven Reasons That Can Reduce The Activities Of A Steemian On Steem Blockchain How To Refrain from Them by ngoeny 100 power up -- by @ngoenyi with a current reward of 24 SBD

Why should they continue? image source Hello friends and steemians, it is high time we tell the truth about why most people sign up in steemit and couldnt continue. I have a lot of people that have signed up but couldnt continue due to one reason or the other. Most of them at the time of signing up had in mind to work hard but as time goes on, they drop out. I have personally discovered a number of reasons why they have chosen not to continue. What are those setbacks and how can ...

#3 The Diary Game 16112020 Happy To Share, steemghana Community is born -- by @oppongk with a current reward of 20 SBD

What a happiest moment to share with the entire Steem Community? I see this as revamp of the old name steemghanateam, which looked more cumbersome to grab by most people. I think steemghana is very simple, a new shape, structure and cute to be loved by everybody. We therefore officially announced and make it public to the entire Steemit Team under the great auspices of steemitblog, steemcurator01 and Steem Executives. I believe steemitblog and steemcurator01 would appreciate this simpl...

#4 Marketing and Promoting Steem with pinpoint accuracy. -- by @stephenkendal with a current reward of 18 SBD

PromoSteem Promoting Steem around the World Promoting Steem around the World As Steem continues to drift down the Rankings of the Cryptocurrency Market by Market Cap Valuation, is now the time to focus on a Global Marketing Strategy that would target the Marketing and Promoting of Steem with pinpoint accuracy? It absolutely breaks my heart to see Steem hovering around outside of the Top 100, worse still outside of the Top 130 and I am sure I am not alone. Despite banging the drum for ...

#5 THE DIARY GAME 15112020 FROM HAVING SPEAKER TROUBLES TO GETTING A HAIRCUT -- by @njaywan with a current reward of 13 SBD

Hello everyone, It was another Sunday yet again and I knew I had lots of task at hand especially with the compilation of various contest results on steem. Steemit has now become a part of me as I make it a point to engage everyone as best as I can during the day. I therefore woke up very early today. I did a couple home workouts such as push ups, leg ups and planks. This warmed me up for my day as I felt very active afterwards. I then freshened up to kill all the sweat that was gu...

#6 The diary game 15112020 -- by @toufiq777 with a current reward of 12 SBD

ASSHALAMU ALAYKUM Today is Sunday, November 151120 It felt a little cold this morning. The morning is now foggy. And sometimes there is light wind. As a result, it feels colder. I woke up at 8 in the morning today. Then I did steemits work for a while. I also did some more work. I had breakfast at 10 am today. Today I ate a boiled egg, tea and Khoi. Then I drank 1 glass of lemon juice. Then I brushed my teeth well. Busy city, QVJX9J Saidpur, Bangladesh I went to the market around 11 in...

#7 Betterlife The diary game 16th Nov 2020 100 power upHappy Bhai Dooj -- by @rishabh99946 with a current reward of 11 SBD

First of all i would like to wish A very happy Bhai dooj to all my Indian friends, hope they all had a good time with their siblings In the morning i woke up early at around 8AM, I deliberately woke up because today was Bhai Dooj, I dont have any sibling except a brother but I have so many cousin sister so I had to go them to celebrate bhai dooj I woke up freshen up and then brush my teeth and then shower then I had light breakfast then I headed towards my cousins home which is approxima...

#8 Timeline of my LID reports for today, Monday 16th November 2020 100 powered up -- by @focusnow with a current reward of 11 SBD

source I am happy to support the LID project which helps us to see what is happening around the world as they happen. I was able to make 5 reports today. This post is an index or timeline of all 5 reports I made. I hope you will enjoy reading them. Note These were my original works submitted as comments under the LID post for today. Location Umunkama Road Aba, Abia State, Nigeria. Time 7.39am Its great to be alive again!!! Its a miracle actually. GoodmorNing friends. I have a gr...

#9 THE DIARY GAME15112020ATTENDING A FRIENDS WEDDING -- by @samuel20 with a current reward of 10 SBD

Good evening peeps and a big welcome to the season 3 of the unending diary game.I hope you all are enjoying the game. I woke up as early as 600 am.I did my morning prayers and arranged the room. I quickly signed in to my Steemit account to check my updates.I replied to comments and also made meaningful comments on other peoples post. Later on...I washed the dishes and had breakfast and headed for Sunday Service.Todays service was cool.It was a thought provoking moment in the LORDs p...

#10 Saute chicken with vegetables looking for a better health -- by @ladyfont with a current reward of 10 SBD

We always think of vegetables as part of of a good health, but nowdays the soils are not producing food as it used to be many years ago. Scientists think that there many factors that can produce this problem. One of the big problem we have is in the treatment of soils. Farmers have to avoid the soil erosion to minimize the loss and degradation of the soils, practice of shift of crops to improve the quality of the soils, the rational use of chemical fertilizers, and the use of rest of veg...

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