Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 10952 SBD and 8990 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 MSPWaves Interactive Social Network Broadcast Weekly News Nov 9 2018 -- by @msp-waves with a current reward of 90 SBD

An exciting week lies ahead here on MSPWaves. We are adding not one, not two, but three new quality shows to our lineup and we here at MSPWaves are excited about it. classpullright Oh, and this just in The MSPWaves Audience chat on Discord will now show Chat from our VIMM Channel, too. r0nd0ns innovative ideas and chirens webhook genius! Thank you both! Its awesome! One Show Cancelled classpullleft While we are pleased to add three great new shows to our programming,...

#2 The Mixture of History in The Pagoda -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 81 SBD

People were crossing the bridge in order to look around the temple. What Id like to introduce you at first is the pagoda in this temple. The one of the most prominent relics in Magoksa temple seems the pagoda in the center of the temple. The pagoda with 5th story seems to be made in Goryeo dynasty. But the upper part of this pagoda looks like to be influenced from the Tibet Buddhism. Actually Tibet Buddhism came into Goryeo after the Mongolian Invasion. So through the war with Mon...

#3 The Digitex Decentralized Model becomes Seamless with The Integration of Plasma Technology -- by @bait002 with a current reward of 65 SBD

Digitex uses a token issuance model as against the conventional transaction fees model. Digitex recently made history by being one of the first companies in the cryptocurrency space to integrated Plasma Technology as they partner with Matter Inc. Digitex Futures is a hybrid exchange that utilized both centralized and decentralized models for the purpose of enhancing transaction speed and increasing the level of security that traders would have on the platform. Traders on Digitex ...

#4 Richmond Virginias Maymont -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 51 SBD

In Richmond, Virginia sits a beautiful 100 acre Victorian estate that is open to the public. The estate includes an opulent gildedage mansion museum, an arboretum and formal gardens, as well as a kids farm. It also features an antique carriage collection, wildlife exhibits, and a nature center. The place was built in 1893 by Major James Dooley, an extremely wealthy lawyer, and named after his wife, Sally May. The Dooleys also built a marble palace called Swannanoa a replica of a M...

#5 Alis Surf Camp Restaurant in Cabarete, Dominican Republic -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 49 SBD

I have been in Dominican Republic for a few days now. Enjoying the relative warmth and for some reason relative lack of humidity compared to where I have been living for the past 10 years in Thailand. I dont understand what is happening here but it must have something to do with currents. Anyway, this is about a wonderful restaurant that I went to tonight called Alis Surf Camp Restaurant. Some people just call it Alis Camp. I think the first thing that people notice about Alis Sur...

#6 Meow Wolf Bring Your Kid Here! -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 49 SBD

Okay, so we may be addicted. Having went last week to the amazing Meow Wolf in Santa Fe and been completely mesmerized, we decided we were in need of a repeat visit. We wanted to delve further into unraveling the mysteries of The House of Eternal Return. But we also wanted to bring our precocious two year old to the exhibit. After having our son, we discovered there are two ways to enjoy things now a. enjoying a moment or experience as one usually would and b. enjoying watching our kid e...

#7 Predator film Do i even need to explain this to anyone? -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 48 SBD

The fact that this movie has not been redone with the Rock yet is a real surprise to me. The advancements in CGI that the cinematic world has experienced since 1987 have been immense. If you watched this film as I did in 1987, you were probably blown away. I guess what I am trying to say is that this film was pretty unique as far as Schwarzenegger films are concerned. We know the script bunch of special forces dudes with interesting pasts go somewhere and destroy the hell out of w...

#8 Finding Nemo film My favorite Pixar -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 45 SBD

There have been a lot of Pixar films made over the years and perhaps many will believe that some are better than others, perhaps even better than Finding Nemo. However, this is my blog post and ill do what I want with it. This movie is perfect in my mind and I am entertained every time i watch it. There are many reasons why i think this is the perfect move but I am sure all of you out there in internet land have already seen it and have your own reasons for loving this movie I would ...

#9 The Hesperides -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 45 SBD

Greek mythology tells of the Daughters of Evening, or the Nymphs of the West, who dwelt on the farwestern island of Erytheia. A prototype for the Garden of Eden, this island was where the nymphs dwelt and where they cared for a peaceful and idyllic garden. In this garden grew the sacred golden apples which belonged to Hera and which possessed the power to bestow immortality. It is from this garden that Eros obtained the same golden apple which became the catalyst for the Trojan War. Miche...

#10 AskSteemit Which Steemfest presentation did you like the most? -- by @acidyo with a current reward of 42 SBD

In case you werent aware, theres been a livestream going the last couple of days of dapps presentations and announcements on Steemfest. If you want to check out the recording, you can do so on the official SteemFest Youtube Channel. I am personally really excited about steempress and their 2way integration, this is a huge step in the right direction to get people on wordpress to notice the rewards that users who have Steem accounts are receiving on both their posts and their comments and I ...

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