Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 1089 SBD and 17378 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 Tour to Sin Reuk Sa Temple in Yeo Joo city with my Mom -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 42 SBD

It was a very cold day me and my mom took a tour to Sin Reuk Sa Temple. My mom told me to go out side somewhere else. It was boring for her to sit in the apartment all day long. The place we tried to visit was Sin Reuk Sa, because shed never been there. It took 2 hours to get there from her apartment. After paring car, we walked along the road for several minutes. The sky was blue and cold. The impressive thing what I noticed there was there was no mountain around this temple. Even th...

#2 beempy.com shows curation performance as plot and works for paid out posts -- by @holger80 with a current reward of 40 SBD

It is now much easier to view the estimated curation performance of a post with beempy.com. Just replace steemit.com by beempy.com works also by busy.org and others. The estimated curation performance and the all votes are plotted for the first 30 minutes as this is the most important time period for curation The curation performance is calculated by the beem function getcurationrewards. A 100 performance means that the equivalent in STU is received in Steem power as curation rewar...

#3 Steemhunt Getting into Numbers -- by @jayplayco with a current reward of 34 SBD

Hi, jayplayco here. This time I would like to share some numbers about Steemhunt. All these numbers are gathered either from different openly accessible sources or have been published by Steemhunt. Source stateofthedapss Steemhunt is currently at rank nine9 at State of the Dapps. The rankings at State of the Dapps are based on different factors and the ranking is among the platforms of Steem, EOS and Ethereum Also GoChain and POA is included as a platform but for the top rankings not ...

#4 Finding a Trading Platform That I Can Love -- by @mobymom with a current reward of 34 SBD

Since becoming involved in the blockchain world, Ive seen more than a few ICOs being born and dozens of trading platform companies peddling their wares to the online world. As a marketer, I am always fascinated by the first rule of marketing center Know Your Audience Thus, Ive taken a careful look at who it is that pumps money into new token drops and flocks to the various trading platforms to do so. Ive found that they are mostly male, mostly young, and come from a wide variety of bac...

#5 Something Big Is About To Happen -- by @theycallmedan with a current reward of 32 SBD

a Study a bubble vs. living one. Youtube algo favoring crypto again google brings crypto ads back Look for moves from China Gold something to watch out for feds cant raise interest, the world knows this world reserve is up for grabs in the end, it is what the masses value. If you had infinite fiat wouldnt u buy some crypto just in case? Quickly get out of control must keep tight lid as long as poss. Blockchains will be lifeboats soon when inflation floods VR is showing up more in co...

#6 The Steem Sisters Are Officially Heading to the Steem CreatorsBlock Builders Conference in Austin! -- by @coruscate with a current reward of 27 SBD

a Hi Friends! So far... maryjaney and I have been to every conference that has been put on by steemcafe, larrymorrison and the Steem Creators crew. So you can imagine there is no way we would miss Austin! Vegas and Toronto were literally some of the funnest memories we have together as sisters no exaggeration and Austin will be no different. Whats really cool is that this event will actually be more than just a Steem event as it will host speakers from other blockchain communities and ...

#7 Fundition proudly presents chibera s project Chibera Open World MMORPG -- by @fundition with a current reward of 25 SBD

Time flies when you are having fun, we agree and we would add that fun comes in different shapes and sizes for different people but what seems to be the common theme for the most of us are games. We love them and we love when they are MMORPG. Too bad that there is not a MMORPG game connected and built on the blockchain. Oh wait, THERE IS!!! a photo is owned by chibera Today we are happy to present you with an amazing project by chibera, called Chibera Open World MMORPG It will be t...

#8 ABQ Biopark Railroad Garden -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 23 SBD

If you are only remotely in to model trains, or even the least bit fascinated my the whimsy found in the miniature, you have got to check out the amazing Railroad Gardens at the New Mexico Biopark Botanical Gardens. The Railroad Gardens features G Scale model trains that maneuver atop 400 plus feet of track. The track moves through lovely gardens, maintained to give the impression of a small village. This diminutive town features buildings and even small people and animals. The train...

#9 Blast from the Past film i had to review this -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 22 SBD

It wouldnt be fair to take a look at Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and not also look at the movie that they kinda stole the entire story from. source Well i suppose unlike the Netflix series this one doesnt involved a cult. In the 60s there actually were people who had fallout shelters underground in preparation for nuclear war some people probably still do but that is the story here. The Webber family believes that the tensions between the USSR and USA are going to escalate and the mu...

#10 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Im digging it so far -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 22 SBD

The story starts out pretty silly Kimmy is imprisoned by a cult leader when she was young. She was kept in a bunker and convinced that the world had ended outside but it was all lies. 15 years later she is let back into the world and knows very little about it. source Because she has never been exposed to modern life outside of being a child, she knows very little about life. However her naive spirit can not be broken by people that are outright mean to her because she doesnt real...

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