Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 16514 SBD and 1269 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 SteemPress Received 1 Million Delegation Interview With The CoFounder Fredrikaa -- by @promo-mentors with a current reward of 174 SBD

Recently misterdelegation has once again reached out to promising projects that are created by entrepreneurial Steemians. Steempressio is one of projects that were blessed with the misters delegation. In todays post we got in touch with Fredrikaa who is one of the cofounders along with howo. Our goal for this interview was primarily to get to know one of the creators behind the promising project. For every aspired Steemian who wants to start a project or if you are a developer and w...

#2 Curie Author Showcase June 16th, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 152 SBD

In spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following our ...

#3 MinnowBooster Answering Questions and Engaging with the Steem Community! -- by @minnowbooster with a current reward of 150 SBD

Hi everyone, NelkelJDM here addressing recent questions on the MinnowBooster blog and bringing you a few important tips in using the service to your benefit! Helping Steemians find success on the platform is a major goal of ours and giving you tips and tricks in maximizing your experience is also important to us! Just to give you an idea of what this new video is about, here is one of the many questions I address below There are a few places to learn about MinnowBooster. One of the ...

#4 Frequently Asked Questions regarding SteemSTEM -- by @katerinaramm with a current reward of 101 SBD

classtextjustify In the last few weeks there has been an ongoing increase of new steemit users who are joining the Discord server of steemstem and I am happy to welcome most of them! Taking under consideration most of the questions IWe receive, I have created the below list of questions that might be helpful for new members who wish to join us! For any additional queries, feel free to comment below or ask on SteemSTEM Discord Thank You for dropping by! SteemSTEM is a community ...

#5 DIY Laundry Soap Another Money Saver! -- by @mayushi with a current reward of 92 SBD

As I had mentioned in a previous post, my wife and I found ourselves in need of reassessing our financial situation due to a job loss. Besides cutting down on unnecessary expenditures, we also looked at other ways we spend money and researched ways to save on the necessities. One of the things I always wanted to try was making my own laundry soap. There are lots of things that may not cost that much in one go, but if you use it daily, it is easy to imagine the overall annual cost of that p...

#6 Nepali Style Chicken Curry -- by @mayushi with a current reward of 91 SBD

My wife is from the foothills of the Himalayas in India and is of TibetanNepali origin. As mentioned in my post on MoMos, having food from home now that she has settled in the United States is of extreme importance. Since preparing interesting and somewhat exotic dishes is an everyday affair for me, Ill likely share with you many more recipes as time goes on. Today, we will talk about Chicken Curry. This is one of our favorites and once you get the hang of it youll be well on your way to m...

#7 Work in progress paper three of the PhD -- by @nonzerosum with a current reward of 79 SBD

Im stuck on one of my papers, so thats what I thought Id write about today. You get to see a little about how the science sausage is made and, hopefully, by explaining this paper to you lovely people I can figure out what exactly all this nonsense means! As Ive mentioned a few times now, Im a research psychologist i.e. not the type that asks you how stuff makes you feel. I study the acceptance, hesitancy and refusal of vaccination. I dont do any of that squidgy biological science that ...

#8 The Elven Bard Marrdo, the Haunted Necro Part 1 -- by @elvenbard with a current reward of 66 SBD

At last, Marrdo had mastered the power of necromancy. He knew he should feel something. Satisfaction? Pride? Instead, all he felt was the same hollow emptiness that haunted him ever since that day. He still remembered it as vividly as if it just happened A monster burst from the mountain cave and charged forward. Marrdo froze, uncertain what he should do. His powers werent strong enough, since hed tried to reject the path most Haunted chose. Marrdo! A small body leaped in front ...

#9 How Many Eyes Does a Butterfly Have, Again? -- by @ezzy with a current reward of 55 SBD

 As enchanting as this island is for us adventure seekers, we must not forget that this place to primarily home to the wild. The sheer amount of different species of insect, animal and fish, is simply mind boggling. And, of course, the astounding beauty they themselves boost has to be seen to be believed. For instance, the picture I took earlier day of this delicate little butterfly. Notice the artistic patterns on the wing, with the upper part r...

#10 Ramengirl Magazine Vol.105 Perfect Veggie Burger Recipe Ramengirl -- by @ramengirl with a current reward of 54 SBD

EN Hey guys, this is ramengirl. Im going to make a perfectly delicious veggie burger today. A veggie burger is one of the most popular menus for those who want to reduce meat or prefer healthy meal even if they are not vegetarians. Lets say you read 20 recipes of veggie burger online, you will find 20 different recipes. There are so many recipes! I tried few other recipes and I have failed a lot. Dont worry about failing if you make it as I will show you, youll be fine! This veggie ...

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