Here is how the Steemit Trending Page would look like without Bid Bots and Self Votes! (15.11.2018)
Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 4312 SBD and 23228 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 Korean Cuisine in the Beach of the West Sea, Korea -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 69 SBD
After looking around the port, I took a lunch in a small local restaurant. Whenever I dropped by the beach village, I always took the fish cuisine. But in this village I could not find a restaurant for the fish. Their only menu of the restaurant was the soup of the beaf intestines. It looked simple, but it is really difficult to make this soup tasteful. In Korean cuisine, the side dishes are so important, but in this soup the side dishes are simple as below. Actually the sid...
#2 Search Functionality in KnackSteem -- by @codingdefined with a current reward of 67 SBD
We had the Search button on the top bar but the search was not implemented. Being a newbie in React, I asked knowledges if I can work on some task and then after getting a goahead to implement Search functionality I started working on it. The endpoint of searching against User and Post a.k.a. Articles were present, we just have to connect them to the frontend. I started with creating a function which will take a search term and give us data from the API for both User and Posts. Relevan...
#3 Steemfriends.org new features Find articles written with a combination of tags not just 2 separated by space and in any order, for both written and voted articles -- by @magicmonk with a current reward of 56 SBD
Repository Merged Pull Request is a popular tool with approximately 20,000 hits per month. You can test out the new feature I have added by getting to the Articles Voted or Articles Written section of Steem Friends. Click on User History on the navigation bar, then click on Written Articles. This will take you to the Article Search form. Alternatively, just go to this link From here, you can see the change I have made to the form. It now allows you to enter a combination of tags i...
#4 Digitex Futures Announces Partnership With Ethereum Plasma -- by @blockurator with a current reward of 51 SBD
Digitex Futures Ltd is a new cryptocurrency exchange currently creating a buzz thanks to a recent announcement made at the Malta Blockchain Summit. Digitex announced that it was partnering with Ethereum Plasma to create a trustless nofee futures exchange for the cryptocurrency market. alt Provide by Digitex Futures. What is Digitex? In a nutshell, Digitex Futures is a new kind of cryptocurrency exchange. There are several things to note about this new exchange, which is planning to g...
#5 Digitex Futures Changing the World of Cryptocurrency Futures Trading -- by @kay-leclerc with a current reward of 51 SBD
Digitex Futures is moving closer and closer to the release of its revolutionary trading platform and expects to be live before the end of the year. Excitement is building after the live Malta demo and crypto investors are lining up to join the early wait list for this zero fee entry into the world of futures trading. Zero fee trading is especially important to day traders who often see even strong profits eaten up by trading fees. The wait list has just cracked the 500,000 mark over 500,0...
#6 Create a system admin panel using Firebase 3 Generate unique ID and Retrieve data -- by @duski.harahap with a current reward of 50 SBD
Generate unique ID Retrieve data from the database Basic HTML, CSS, and javascript Use firebase Local server Xampp, Wampp, or etc Firebase Basic This tutorial we will continue the previous tutorial series about admin in firebase. For those of you who are new to firebase. I suggest you follow the previous tutorial so you dont feel confused. In this tutorial, I will learn how to display data in our firebase database and we will see how to make CRUD in a realtime database. lets just ...
#7 ABQ Street Art -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 45 SBD
One of the reasons that I love this city is that the art scene cannot be contained to just galleries and shops, it literally spreads to the street. Im not a big fan of mindless tags, but I love the thoughtful, beautiful , and mostly colorful large pieces that can be found all over town. Many of these are done legally, commissioned by building owners looking to add a splash of color to an otherwise boring backdrop. This is not considered graffiti or vandalism, but street art. While I...
#8 Magic Medicine Smoothie -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 44 SBD
I call this smoothie magic medicine because on top of being beyond amazingly delicious, it is full of antioxidants and ingredients with antiinflammatory properties. The carrot juice and turmeric provide a unique flavor to otherwise standard smoothie ingredients, each offering their own health benefits. This recipe makes 2 large smoothies or 3 small ones. Ingredients 2 12 cups of carrot juice 1 tablespoon turmeric 2 pineapple rings or 14 cup chopped pineapple cup strawberries 2 r...
#9 Big Tubes 4WD -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 44 SBD
iframe width560 height315 frameborder0 allowaccelerometer; autoplay; encryptedmedia; gyroscope; pictureinpicture allowfullscreen This is a short video from our last trip to the Big Tubes, one of the many volcanic landscapes found around El Malpais National Monument in western New Mexico. If you go all the way to the Big Tubes Parking area, the road goes on past and connects to a whole network of rutted, muddy dirt roads. Needless to say, you need a 4WD vehicle for this, but if you have one...
#10 More beach experiences in the Dominican -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 44 SBD
Everyone calls it the D.R. or R.D. if speaking it properly in Spanish... by the way. The beach I am staying on is not very good for swimming. It could be considered very dangerous or even deadly because no one is watching and if you were in trouble i dont think anyone would come to save you. I am a very strong swimmer but even i was not going to chance it. However, the beach had some pretty interesting aspects to it such as this fella. Youve heard of driftwood right? How about dr...
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