Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 5802 SBD and 10710 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 Sierra Blanca Checkpoint -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 51 SBD

Last year, my family and I went on a crosscountry road trip from Virginia to Arizona and back. On the way home, we decided to stop off in El Paso, Texas and visit some relatives. From there, we planned to spend the night in San Antonio before making our way to New Orleans. We all went out to have a last meal together before saying goodbye. As we were enjoying a great meal and soaking up the beautiful surroundings at Cattlemans Steakhouse at Indian Cliffs Ranch, my uncle mentioned that as we ...

#2 The worst rental car Ive ever had -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 49 SBD

While I dont rent that many cars anymore, there was a time where it was incredibly common for me to have dozens of rental cars per year back when I had a traveljob where the company was paying for them. Normally I quite like rental cars because they tend to be the fastest cars in the world since you dont really need to be concerned about what you do to the engine. That being said, I have had just about every sort of standard or midsize car that you can imagine and I cant believe tha...

#3 Sierra Blanca Checkpoint Part 2 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 49 SBD

Part 1 My first thought was to just get rid of the bud. Easy enough right? But I had been smoking the whole trip, there was bound to be residue all over the place that would never get past the dogs, regardless of whether we ditched it or not, still leaving us with having our truck ransacked. For one, our truck was packed to burst. My wife likes to bring the whole world with her on trips, and we also had 2 dogs and a 1 year old baby with us. Besides the fact that repacking and loading the tr...

#4 Cooking Hiatus Apologies -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 48 SBD

For those that follow us for our recipes, we apologize for the hiatus on recipe posting. Over the last few weeks we have been hosting guests, exploring the state, and celebrating a few things. All of which led to a deficit of time in the kitchen and a lack of new recipes. In all honesty, weve been eating out and eating pizza maybe a little too much these last few weeks. altKitchen, Glove, Plate, Spoon, Wooden, Plastic, And Bowl Dont get me wrong, I love eating out. Its nice to have someo...

#5 Beautiful Bosque Walk -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 47 SBD

Beautiful blue sky? Check. Warm, golden sunshine? Check. We had all that we needed for a walk down in the bosque of the Rio Grande. This is one of my favorite areas in the city, with the dense cottonwoods and river views. And the best part of the bosque is that it is never the same twice. Today I was surprised by the late season sunflowers that were still in bloom. Against the bronze leafed cottonwoods, the contrast of seasons was beautiful. Cottonwoods, are likely my favorite tree. ...

#6 RDU Raleigh Airport A review kinda -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 47 SBD

I am only writing about this mostly because the TSA must have a great manager here because it is the only time I have ever seen them be friendly. This relatively small airport is in a mediumsize city in North Carolina less than half a million people live here. If you are not from the United States there is a good chance you would have not heard of the place. We were only flying from here because it is one of the few places that flies to the Dominican Republic without huge layovers and we ...

#7 Sierra Blanca Checkpoint Part 3 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 45 SBD

Part 1 Part 2 We werent quite out of the woods yet, though. As we skirted the eastern edge of El Paso on our way to join up with 62, to my horror a checkpoint came looming up on road ahead, with no way to turn back. This one wasnt shown on any maps! To this day, I still cant find it. Well, now we are in for it I thought, but I crossed my fingers and said a prayer, and pulled into the open lane framed by signs proclaiming the use of highly trained and vicious looking drugsniffing dogs at th...

#8 The Best Alfredo Ever -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 45 SBD

This creamy, savory sauce is a favorite of mine, that I dont make often enough. In the early years of my relationship with my husband, I was reluctant to make it, as he was staunchly adamant that alfredo sauce is inferior to any tomato sauce. However, in the throes of pregnancy cravings, I whipped up this easy cream sauce, and he took one bite and fell in love. If youve never had homemade alfredo sauce, it is worlds apart from anything you can purchase in a can, and it is so easy to make...

#9 The Truman Show film A good, mostly serious film that showed Carey CAN do more than silly -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 45 SBD

Before he went batST crazy and started harassing politicians in order to remain relevant while simultaneously having films go straight to DVD, Jim Carey had a string of wildly successful films. A vast majority of them were the slapstick comedies the he earns his real money for, but a few were mixed in there that toyed with the idea that Carey is capable of acting outside of the comedy genre. This was one of those films and I thought it was great. By the way the movie posters image was...

#10 Whats Eating Gilbert Grape film Just found out it lost money.... huh? -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 44 SBD

This movie is good. It has a starstudded lineup and a compelling story that makes you laugh and cry as well as feel pity and anger. I didnt know until about an hour ago that this movie failed to make its relatively small budget back. Recognize any of those faces? Well that is a quite young Leo DiCaprio before he started to lecture everyone on environmental decay from his private jet. He has an unusual role in this film and he nailed it. This film resulted in his first Academy Awa...

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