Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 30 SBD and 134 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 Two Wearable Eye Makeup Looks to Recreate at Home Using Zoeva Naturally Yours, Melody and Precious -- by @mvd with a current reward of 12 SBD

a In this video, Im going to use the Zoeva Naturally Yours, Melody and Precious eyeshadow palettes and I will create two beautiful and easy to follow eye makeup looks. Hope you enjoy the video I N S T A G R A M S T E E M I T G E M A F R E I E M U S I K G O L D P I E R C I N G S Disclaimer The videos are not sponsored and there are no affiliate links. The products that I use in my videos are ones that I personally recommend and have purchased at my own expense. I believe...

#2 Equilibrium EOSDT AMA Session -- by @lukestokes with a current reward of 11 SBD

I had a fun AMA session with Equilibrium this past Wednesday talking about all kinds of interesting things in the blockchain cryptocurrency space from FIO, to stable coins, to DACs and DAOs, to DPoS consensus, the SteemitTron news, and the latest DiFi hacks. I hope you enjoy it and learn something new! iframe width560 height315 frameborder0 allowaccelerometer; autoplay; encryptedmedia; gyroscope; pictureinpicture allowfullscreen classpullright a a Stokes i...

#3 Garden 2020 Planning Begins -- by @goldendawne with a current reward of 8 SBD

Winter is coming to an end and that means two MAIN things for me. Better weather and gardening season is knocking on my homestead door. While I was recovering from my surgery in January, I spent some time with all my seeds, seed packets and containers holding harvested seeds from the 2019 garden. I made a list of what I had on hand, what I may be missing and want to grow this year and making sure everything was in order. Spring approaches quick when youre locked indoors waiting for the bl...

#4 Splinterlands Weekly Challenge My Investment Fun Journey -- by @reeta0119 with a current reward of 7 SBD

Hello and Namaste Everyone, This is friday and the entire week passed. This week was quite hectic for me as I got lots of work and thats why could not give more time to game but now its weekend time and I am going to share my this week journey of splinterlands Since this weeks social media challenge is here and infact this one is going to end in 1 day most probably so before it ends I am sharing my post for this week. Sometimes life gets so busy and its difficult to take out time and same ...

#5 Alfa coffee Prestige Resto Is One of the Right Places to relax while enjoying lunch -- by @hhusaini with a current reward of 7 SBD

br Hi everyone, for those of you who live in the North Aceh region of Indonesia, Alfa coffee Prestige Resto is the right place to relax while having lunch outside. this is because this place is easy to reach because it is located on the side of the Banda Aceh Great Road to Medan precisely at Meunasah Tutong, Lhoksukon Aceh Utara Indonesia. At Alfa coffee Prestige Resto There are a variety of food and beverage menus available but at this place the favorite drink menu is Cold Sanger...

#6 How To Invest in steemmonsters Paying Less Than 50 of The Booster Pack Price The Best Deal Ends in Less Than 3 Hours! -- by @vimukthi with a current reward of 7 SBD

The stars have aligned for a magnificent investment opportunity into what is basically the 1 blockchain game on the planet. Take a look at the statistics and tell me if steemmonsters isnt at least a Top 5 blockchain games. We are very unlikely to see am investment opportunity like this into steemmonsters again. We have a game that is not well known at 3 or 4 if you have deep pockets deals aligning together to stack up to save your well over 50 20 Cents worth STEEM for each Untamed Pack...

#7 Steemiteducation -- by @steemiteducation with a current reward of 7 SBD

There are over 60 million teachers and 750 million students in the world today. We need to bring them to the Steem Blockchain. Source Steemiteducations goal is to empower educators to empower their students and to help provide an education to anyone with a desire to learn regardless of geographic location or economic status. Our dreams are huge. Some day, we plan to be able to Offer content courses Develop educational technology and apps Share lesson plans Provide howto and tutor...

#8 PW14 Good Manners Will Set Your Life for Better -- by @khaimi with a current reward of 7 SBD

Hello ocd community and steem lovers.. No matter where you are in the world, one of the things that determines the assesment of a person and others to us or from us to others is manners. As social beings, we should pay attention to manners. If you bring yourself to bad manners then it can damage your selfimage, both in the public eyes or to the professional world you are in now. Through this article, I would like to invite all of us to improve ourselves while looking at the natural b...

#9 Back to Healthy Meals -- by @ramengirl with a current reward of 7 SBD

br EN After a long Tet holiday I decided to eat healthier Day 1, Breakfast Whats your favorite breakfast menu? My favorite breakfast these days is overnight oats. Honestly, I wasnt a big fan of oats until I found out overnight oats recipes ; Its SO easy to make and taste so much better than warm oats! I like it because its cold since Im living in a hot country. I like to eat overnight oats with a little bit of fruits and fresh coconut water. Did you know you can get fresh coconut ev...

#10 Summer Forest Intrigue -- by @barski with a current reward of 6 SBD

Two years ago, in the summer, I found the biggest intriguer of the forest. This happened forty kilometers from the capital of Moldova, the city of Chisinau. I drove towards the unrecognized republic of Transnistria. An excellent highway paved with reinforced concrete slabs that is able to withstand the movement of heavy tracked vehicles leads to that direction. She was planned in case of war, for a quick transfer of troops. After the war of the left and right banks of the Dniester River...

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