Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 9 SBD and 452 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 To Downvoters and my exfollowers, Id like to continue my blog -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 55 SBD

The reward I am receiving is strongly influenced by the amount of my SP. Actually I got heavy loss in the Steemit investment. So the reward at this price is not so important for me. I will power down my SP to reduce my reward. What I want to do now is continuing my blog. I admit that Id like to upvote for my followers who support me in the old steem period. But in this circumstance, it is impossible to continue my loyalty to my old friends. ranchorelaxo and haejin, thank you for your supp...

#2 Gratitude That I Found Cryptocurrency -- by @taskmaster4450 with a current reward of 18 SBD

I will admit that I am not one who got rich off cryptocurrency. Never was I in the Lambo crowd. My entry into cryptocurrency started by dipping my toe in during 2016. I got involved to a greater degree in 2017. It was during that time that I found Steem and joined in August of the year. Source That said, I am very grateful to be involved in cryptocurrency. I see a much brighter future for, not only myself, but all of humanity. To say that I am a true believer in the longterm potenti...

#3 Tau Alpha, Microservices Architecture, and Internet of Languages -- by @dana-edwards with a current reward of 15 SBD

In the most recent Q A we got an update from the development team. The update this month was quite meaningful and for those who havent seen it yet, I suggest you look at it here Ill be discussing in my blog some of the technical details of what they discussed in the video and giving my interpretations of what is being developed. The Microservices Architecture and Tau Alpha The Broker in a microservices architecture makes sense to anyone who is familiar with RabbitMQ or ZeroMQ. ZeroM...

#4 DIY Victorian Style house and Restoration Man project -- by @stef1 with a current reward of 11 SBD

classsizefull wpimage3525 alt width1100 height682 br ; ;; ; Finally it is weekend for me and after finishing my long working shift I am off. This weekend is also off for my hubby myskye, normally he is full time involved in restoration of our house, the previous owners left everything in style of 70s and looks like were not really bored with the look and aging of everything. For us, we knew that we have to invest much in but did not realize that it will take so much time and work. ; ...

#5 DNCC Wonderland Park The Beautiful Night -- by @hafizullah with a current reward of 9 SBD

In our country, the number of parks with modern facilities is not very high. Yet as it is now, the locals are crowded over the holidays. The purpose is to enjoy some extra joy over the holidays. Because people live more than the size of our city. However, we always try to enjoy as many opportunities as we can. I also make every effort to travel and enjoy the holidays. Whenever I get the opportunity, I try to enjoy it differently with family members. Holidays mean more to me. That day I...

#6 eSteem Weekly Talk 2nd of November -- by @horpey with a current reward of 8 SBD

eSteem weekly talk is an initiative created to highlight news from the official eSteem team and eSteem topics created by eSteemians. Twitter is home base of cryptos, in respect to this, melinda010100 launched a task for all eSteemians. Share any post about eSteem apps on Twitter with tag eSteem, steem and cryptocurrency and get rewarded with ESTM which can be converted to Steem through upvotes. You may share your Twitter links below in the comments and to qualify your link must be a...

#7 Solar Panel Trigger Experiment DIY -- by @kiwibloke with a current reward of 8 SBD

Sun Transistor LEDs Battery State Sunlight on panel OFF OFF charging No Sunlight ON ON discharging Steemit D.tube Engrave Actifit Exhaust Endomondo board designed by me on EasyEDA, manufactured by JLCPCB my schematic this is the updated version My understanding is, when no Light hits the solar panel, this will cause a backflow from the rechargeable battery back into the solar panel, the diode is used to block any current drain but we can use a transistor to d...

#8 Market Friday lunch at the Chinese restaurant Sanyod in Bangrak, -- by @kaminchan with a current reward of 7 SBD

This is my entry for marketfriday hosted by the very gentle and compassionate dswigle. Life has been incredibly hectic and busy this past week. Time just slipped by without evident accomplishment in anything substantial. Perhaps I have been too occupied with the forthcoming Steem Fest4 in Bangkok and the arrival of several Steemit friends. Last week I managed to visit my favourite Chinese cuisine in Bangrak. I just discovered that this restaurant got listed on Muchilin Guide 2018...

#9 House Plants! -- by @brewcitygardener with a current reward of 7 SBD

a Its getting cold outside! We have to bring the garden indoors now so I thought I would show off the plants I have growing in the Brew City Household. But thats not all. I want to see your houseplants as well hashtag House Plant Tag! In this video I tagged a few of my favorite gardening channels. Be sure to check them out at The Great Gardener I do other things The Citystead The Naked Gardener I also invite anyone who wants to show off what they have growing as well. Post those ...

#10 TAKING PICTURE WITH THE BRIDE -- by @elianaelisma with a current reward of 6 SBD

Good evening all of my friends. How are you today? I hope that you are healthy, okay? My friends, tonight I would like to discuss the topic of taking pictures with the bride when the wedding celebration day is taking place. I think it is natural for everyone to capture a memory in a photo. So it is not surprising in a wedding day celebration many people who want to take pictures. Including my friends and I. Well ... this time I share some pictures about the moment to you here. What is you...

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