Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 3105 SBD and 13058 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 Simple is The Best, In Tongdosa temple -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 73 SBD

There is no Buddha statue in Daewungjeon of Tongdosa, because it is said that there is the real body of Buddha. It was known as the teeth of Buddha. It is believed the great monk Jijang had brought the sarira of teeth into Shilla dynasty when he had finishing study the teachings of Buddha in China. In fact, there are several temples urging that they have the sarira of Buddha. But Tongdosa temple is the most representative among those temples and was officially recognized. In Catholic Chur...

#2 Funfetti Layer Cake -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 42 SBD

This colorful, sweet concoction is perfect for a kids birthday party or the perfect treat for anyone who is still young at heart. This recipe yields a fluffy, moist, and delicious cake, all while being incredibly simple to follow. It is imperative that you use rainbow jimmies in the cake, as other types of sprinkles will bleed their color and cause an undesirable grayness throughout the batter. But you can use any sprinkles your heart desires to decorate this cake, the more the better! I...

#3 Gucci Gang is garbage how is this popular? -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 42 SBD

A friend of mine sent me a message telling me that I gotta check out Gucci Gang because that st is FIRE! I complied. After listening to the song I seriously believed that my friend was pulling my leg and having a laugh at my expense. I thought a lot less of his musical taste once it was discovered that he was being serious. This otherwise unemployable fella is called Lil Pump and while I think that mumble rap thats what this is, right? is a scourge on the music scene and specifically...

#4 Albuquerque Museum of Natural History and Science -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 41 SBD

With our sons second birthday coming up, my wife and I wanted to take him somewhere he would really love for his special day. Like many little boys, he loves dinosaurs, so we naturally thought to bring him on an excursion to Albuquerque, New Mexicos Museum of Natural History and Science. We werent sure if he would be too young to enjoy it, but it turns out he absolutely loved the place! He couldnt stop telling us about all the animals, rocks and bones he was seeing and would enthusiastically...

#5 Mo Money film A silly and fun Damon Wayans trip -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 41 SBD

Damon Wayans is i think the most successful of the Wayans and when this movie was released he was kind of at the peak of his career. He had emerged from the same variety show that brought us Jim Carrey called In Living Color. Although he has all but dissappeard from the entertainment scene, i feel as though this film was one of his best comedies from the early 90s Wayans plays Johnny Stewart, a con man who works the streets, sometimes with the help of his brother Seymour Marlon Wayans...

#6 Albuquerque Museum of Natural History and Science 2 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 41 SBD

In Part 1, I talked about seeing all the dinosaurs, but there is a lot more to the museum. In the Naturalist Center, kids and their parents can get a handson experience learning about the natural world of New Mexico. This room had microscopes to look through, fossils and rocks to touch, an impressive bug collection and a sand pit for making animal tracks. There are also live native animals here to see, including a huge turtle, a vinegaroon, a beautiful tiger salamander and lots of snakes. W...

#7 Captain Marvel -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 41 SBD

The trailer for Captain Marvel just dropped, and it is creating quite a buzz among Marvel fanboys and girls alike. While I really loved Thor Ragnarok and Dr. Strange, I havent loved most of the movies in the MCU, but I do really like the series as a whole and am anxiously awaiting the sequel to Infinity War. With the final credit scene showing Nick Fury sending out an urgent signal in his final moments with the Captain Marvel insignia, we know she will play a big role in the next installment...

#8 Uncle Drew film I guess its ok -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 40 SBD

I ended up watching this movie because Ill watch pretty much anything. I dont know what is more surprising the fact that they decided to turn a 2 minute youtube video into a fulllength film or that the movie made 30 million dollars. I guess Im not the only person who will watch pretty much anything. So if you are not familiar with the Uncle Drew commercials they were an advert for Nike or Reebok or something along those lines and it was basically putting a crap ton of makeup on NBA s...

#9 Understanding Cognition The Story So Far -- by @cryptogee with a current reward of 38 SBD

This is a short summary and list of links to my Understanding Cognition series. I started this particular thread because it is important to understand what biases are driving us to act the way we do. In some circumstances it is just enough to know about them as a matter of interest. In others we need to be aware of them in order to understand and change our behaviour accordingly. I hope to write many more articles on this subject, so this will serve as the first table of contents for th...

#10 How to remove DLive from your Authorized Apps -- by @fulltimegeek with a current reward of 37 SBD

Since DLive will no longer be using the Steem blockchain for their endeavors sayonara, I highly recommend all Steemians remove them from ones Authorized Apps. This only goes to those that logged into DLive at one point or another with their Steem account. You can revoke DLives permission by going here httpsv2.steemconnect.comdashboard Steem Connect is a free utility provided by Busy.org 1. Login with your private POSTING Key 2. Click on Authorized Apps 3. Click Revoke for dlive.io ...

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