Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 14056 SBD and 6079 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 Intelligram Publish your best picture only and get likes -- by @blessedman939 with a current reward of 133 SBD

Publish your best picture only and get likes View Image View Image View Image Intelligram is an application that allows you to choose and publish your best taken pictures on instagram. This ensures you get the desired result in terms of likes and activities on your instagram account. It works by comparing your photo with roughly 100k users of the intelligram app to know whether the photo should be published or not. You also get feedback from the Intelligram anonymous wall o...

#2 Everyone is Freakin Triggered These Days -- by @the-alien with a current reward of 99 SBD

Barry Brownstein, professor emeritus of economics at Baltimore University. In ideal world, I would love to tell you that the first thing that came to my mind while reading this is What is the world turning to? But the comedic side of my brain was wondering what happened if that dude lived next to Permit Patty or BBQ Becky. For those who are not familiar with the story, a few weeks ago there was a video that went viral about a woman who took offense at an 8 year old girl who for sel...

#3 Interview Randy Hencken of the Seasteading Institute, Blue Frontiers, and VARYON! -- by @lukestokes with a current reward of 86 SBD

It was a pleasure to interview Randy Hencken today, the Managing Director and Cofounder of Blue Frontiers bluefrontiers who has been working since 2011 to promote new systems of governance and sustainable living with floating systems for freedom, liberty, and human flourishing. Ive been following the Seasteading story for quite some time, and Im very excited about the potential here. Randy and I met at the Tulip Conference in San Francisco last month, and he was gracious enough to give me so...

#4 Steemcamp Grand finale for Miss Steem Nigeria and One steem stage was a huge success -- by @steemcamp with a current reward of 81 SBD

After Scouting for Creative,Talented and Beautiful iniduals in Six6 cities in Nigeria, On the 8th of July was the grand final competition for One Steem Stage for talent and Miss Steem Pageantry. We started camp on the 1st of July with different activities which you can see in the video below This is our first offline competition and Camp bringing creative minds from all over Nigeria, Though we faced and still facing financial challenges, We even borrowed from bankonsteemit and paid in t...

#5 Welcome Byteball to Steem! -- by @steemitblog with a current reward of 81 SBD

In our recent blog post Censorship Why all Blockchain Projects Should Join Steem we said Thats why were so excited that Byteball is joining the Steem community! You can see more about their plans here. What we find so exciting about the Byteball Teams plans for Steem is that they go well beyond a simple airdrop, or even just posting announcements to Steem. They are creating a bridge from Byteball to Steem and using it to improve their own platform. For example, one of the things every ...

#6 Electricity and Consilience. Part 2 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 73 SBD

Part 1 Michael Faraday. By the beginning of the twentieth century, electromagnetic forces seemed to show great promise in explaining our universe. As early as 1840, Michael Faraday, the great English scientist, was attempting to link gravity with electromagnetism. Faraday had solved the puzzle provided by Danish chemist Hans Christian rsteds discovery of electromagnetism, with the concept of forcefields, and established a link between light and magnetism. His discoveries in induction, el...

#7 Electricity and Consilience. Part 3 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 73 SBD

See Part 1a here. See Part 2a here. Tesla and his coil in action. By 1900, many brilliant minds had taken taken up Faradays cause and were making profound discoveries into the nature of electromagnetism. Norwegian scientist, Kristian Birkeland, was reproducing sunspots regions of intense magnetic activity on the suns surface in his laboratory, by applying electricity to a magnetized globe suspended in a vacuum. Kristian Birkland reproducing a sunspot. The Serbian genius, Nikola T...

#8 Cheesy Broccoli Casserole -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 72 SBD

This casserole is perfect for nights you dont have much energy for dinner, but still want something hearty. This six ingredient dish features things you probably already have on hand in your cabinets and freezer. A cheesy, gooey, delicious comfort food that is vegetarian and loaded with yummy green veggies, it is a crowd pleaser without taking up too much time or effort. Ingredients box of Farfalle pasta 2 cups of broccoli, chopped frozen or fresh 2 cups of peas frozen or fresh 1 can...

#9 UPDATEBrave Shawn Raised 33,407.71 PHP for Baby Shawn. We are still waiting for the schedule of the operation. -- by @themanualbot with a current reward of 69 SBD

Fundition A Fundraising Campaign that aims to support baby Shawns Shunt Surgery It is been a week now since I last updated the Funding Campaign for Shawns Surgery. It turned out so well from the entire campaign, from the start to this day because of the communitys support and help. Last time, I gave an update about the shunt needed for the operation was already covered by the donations and the earnings of the campaign. If there were remaining and unused balances, it was all well spen...

#10 FOAM Decentralized GPS Through Proof of Location -- by @creativecrypto with a current reward of 48 SBD

The Future of Location hr classvideoWrapperiframe width640 height360 frameborder0 allowfullscreenallowfullscreen datamcefragment1 FOAM is a decentralized platform that is committed to building spatial standards, protocols, and applications that bring geospatial data to blockchains and empower a consensus driven map of the world. They believe that people should be in charge of their own personal information, and decide whether or not to disclose their location. With the utilization of...

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