Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 916 SBD and 1041 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 The Scenery of ByeokgolJae Reservoir in Kimjae City, Korea. -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 146 SBD

There was an observatory near Byeokgoljae. I could look around the scenery near Byeokgoljae reservoir. Korea is a country of the mountains. You can see the mountains everywhere in Korea. But this area is the only place you cannot see the mountains. And it is the only place you can see the horizon on the earth. Thats the reason why they built the observatory here. When stepping up the observatory, I could see the dragons. Some one told me there was a legend that two dragons had lived ...

#2 Curie Author Showcase August 5th, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 102 SBD

In the 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 o...

#3 Roasted Sweet Potatoes -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 68 SBD

Sweet potatoes are one of my cupboard staples; mashed they make an excellent side, baked with clove, butter, and honey is one of my favorite treats, and roasted sweet potatoes are an easy, yummy improvement to any meal. They can be served as a side or piled on a bowl of grains and sauteed vegetables. The earthy sweetness of sweet potatoes is a perfect foil to many bitter or savory foods, which is why I typically add roasted sweet potatoes to dishes involving kale or other leafy greens. On...

#4 Caprese Stuffed Mushrooms -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 66 SBD

Among all of the other joys of summertime, an abundance of tomatoes and fresh basil from my garden is one of my favorites. This bounty inevitably leads to many caprese salad variations. In this recipe, mushrooms are stuffed with mozzarella and tomato, broiled to gooey perfection and sprinkled with chopped basil and a drizzle of balsamic reduction. Ingredients 5 large portobello mushrooms 1 cup of grape tomatoes 2 tablespoons of chopped basil 4 ounces of fresh mozzarella 1 tablesp...

#5 SteemPets Update!! -- by @steempets with a current reward of 58 SBD

Hello SteemPeeps! Our wonderful artist derosnec is now gathering wood for the furnace in the legendary forest Tangled Branch. She has travelled far and wide in her quest for the perfect environment to create our SteemPets. Spells have been cast, inspiration conjured and beer brewed. In the next fortnight or so a heavy metal track will drop in Tangled Branch Forest and creation will begin! Thank you all so much for your patience. If you would like to know more about SteemPets and how y...

#6 5 Great Reasons Why You Need To Sign Up on Trade.io Crypto Exchange Now!! -- by @jaraumoses with a current reward of 57 SBD

There are really many crypto exchanges at the moment,but there are those that are exceptional.In this post I will be stating the reasons you must sign up with Trade.io now just after reading this post! You can begin by reading my trade.io unbiased website review and also Trade.ios core services. I really recommend you to check out those two posts before you continue on this one! I will give a brief definition of Trade.io below Let me not waste more time and let introduce you the rea...

#7 Yacht spotting in the Tyrrhenian Sea The worlds fourthlargest motor yacht -- by @shaka with a current reward of 56 SBD

After our encounter with the worlds largest sailing yacht we were lucky to spot another monster of the seas just the day after and a couple of bays later At first glance, it appeared as an admittedly big but rather typical motor yacht. With maybe one floor more than usual... However, the closer we got the more apparent the hugeness of this yacht became. See this whirlybird on the roof floor? Right, that requires a bit of space... How long is it? Just right, 156 meters! The wor...

#8 Trade.io An Overview Of The Exchange, KYC Angel Investing -- by @alvinauh with a current reward of 54 SBD

Image source Trade.io In my previous post, I wrote of my thoughts on why Trade.io was going to revolutionize cryptocurrency trading. Today, lets take a look at the many services and features of Trade.io. One of the first selling points of Trade.io is their exchange. The exchanges interface is similar to most interface found on any trading platform. If you have used one, the others should be familiar enough. However, the one added feature found on Trade.ios trading interface allows you t...

#9 Trade.io An Exchange With High Liquidity And Rewarding Liquidity Pool. -- by @xpency with a current reward of 53 SBD

Because the fiat market is always able to easily absorb large amount of transactions, without the price of the fiat currency reducing drastically. If anyone decides to make a transaction of 20 million today, the cost of that transaction and value of that same fiat currency is already known and other procedures can be taken to control volatility. It differs in the case of cryptocurrencies, sending the same amount with most of these cryptocurrencies may cause an effect on the value of that co...

#10 Trade.io An overview of the features -- by @meemee with a current reward of 51 SBD

alt It is quite obvious to all the difference between the decentralized Blockchain Technology and the already existing trading and financial system. The truth still remains that the Blockchain Technology is the smartest, transparent, faster and very much traceable, most iniduals think that the crypto technology is the only usefulness of the Blockchain system, meanwhile the Blockchain system has a dynamic nature as it can be used to trade physical assets and also useful in the commodity m...

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