These are the Daily Top 10 Trending posts on Steemit.

But why is this important?

It forms a history of what was deemed important enough to be included in the first posts new visitors see on the Steemit Platform.

Yes, it's our advertising to the world so we'd better hope it's good.

But as a twist I'm also going to reveal if those posts are using excessive self-promotion to get to the front page.

So let's jump straight into it.

Steemit Daily Top 10 Trending - 25/02/2018

No.1

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: YES

No.2

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: YES

No.3

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

No.4

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

No.5

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

No.6

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

No.7

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: YES

No.8

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

No.9

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

No.10

Excessive Post Self-Promotion: NO

Score: 7/10

Well done Steemit you've managed to curate some good content today but it's not a perfect score.

In fact it appears the #steemultimatechallenge is creating quite a stir. And when you dig a little deeper into the original post you can see why - https://steemit.com/steemitultimatechallenge/@dobartim/45eugt-steemit-ultimate-challenge-8-weeks-prize-fund-2000-sbd-week-4-registration-is-in-progress

Thank you for competition Sponsors : @dobartim , @flysky , @aidasfg7

It appears our excessive promoters at #1 and #2 in Trending are actually the sponsors of this extravagant challenge so they thought they'd pay themselves a little extra this week to cover the charitable donations.

It's a bit like @jerrybanfield upvoting his posts so he can generously donate the earnings to his 'budgets' fund.

So it appears to be common practice around here, but isn't it like a politician kissing babies while stealing from the mothers purse.

This just doesn't sit right with me, but what about you?