Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 9 SBD and 611 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 How to get copyrightfree images of Cricket sports? -- by @tarpan with a current reward of 51 SBD

class textjustify Our brains can store an image very easily rather than any other text. A good quality image plays a significant role to make a blog more attractive. In many cases, it becomes hard to find out a suitable copyrightfree image for our blog. It becomes harder when it comes to the term of sports celebrities. Today I am sharing with you can get a copyrightfree picture of cricket players. Source In the advanced world, material assets as well as an intellectual property play a...

#2 A better life with steemCryptoandme Why i chose to invest in steem power. -- by @whitestallion with a current reward of 34 SBD

image source Hello friends and welcome back to my betterlife with steem update, Its been a few months since the start of this program and I am happy to record another post. In this post, I will relate the reasons why I have chosen to invest in steempower and why its the right move for bloggers to set their post to 100 power up as suggested by the steemit team and steemcurator01. Why I choose SP over Steem This might sound confusing, cause some newbies will be like whats the difference...

#3 Spotlight on Poloniex The Legendary Crypto Asset Exchange Part 3 -- by @jehoshua-shey with a current reward of 21 SBD

Hello everyone! Im here again with another part of the short series Spotlight on Poloniex. This is the third part of the series and it is all about crypto lending on Poloniex. In the second part, I talked about margin trading on Poloniex. Margin trading makes it possible for a user to borrow funds to trade with using the funds in their margin account as collateral. Now, where is this funds borrowed from? Whos doing the lending? Is there any connection between margin trading and crypto le...

#4 Weekly CR report by focusnow 2nd November 8th November 2020. -- by @focusnow with a current reward of 20 SBD

Another 7 days have passed and its time to report how it has been for me working as a country representative. Its getting busier for me as the day goes by. Here is how I have performed in the last 7 days as reported to steemcurator01 and steemitblog, Recruitment has been one of the major areas I take personal. If we can bring as many people as we can to Steemit, then here would become popular. So these are my personal recruits in the period mentioned above chigold1 chizikky187 i...

#5 Poloniex Crypto Exchange with Great Features -- by @starlord28 with a current reward of 19 SBD

Hey guys! I know Im a bit late to this, but here is my entry for the Spotlight on Poloniex contest run by steemitblog. Poloniex Crypto Asset Exchange Cryptocurrency exchanges are a reliable way for everyone to get access to various cryptocurrencies. So far, I have used indigenous crypto exchanges like Unocoin, Zebpay, Wazirx, etc along with popular international exchanges like Binance and Kucoin. The local exchanges are a great way for me to convert my local fiat currency into cryptocu...

#6 Spotlight on Poloniex Contest Poloniex VS Kraken Head to Head -- by @gbenga with a current reward of 19 SBD

If you want to know a better exchange, then there is only one way to know and that is comparing it with other competitors in the same industry so for the purpose of this post, I will be comparing Poloniex with Kraken, two exchange giants in the cryptocurrency exchange industry but in my future posts, I will be doing a comparison of Poloniex and other exchanges. Keep your eye glued to this post till the end to see why people will prefer using them for their different transactions. cryptohea...

#7 Still On Poloniex Poloniex User Agreement -- by @unyime with a current reward of 18 SBD

Thank you steemcurator01 for helping unmute my account. This post was hidden during that time and as such it was not curated.. Image source. The first thing all users of Poloniex must agree with is the user agreement. It is very important that one reads this in order to know what hes signing up for, before using the exchange. The user agreement is like signing a contract with Poloniex. This agreement is bound by the kind of services rendered in Poloniex and users agreement to use it the...

#8 Project W Vault Launching -- by @projectw with a current reward of 18 SBD

The tests for the Vault function are now coming to an end and we are going to launch the first vaults soon. Please read carefully, if you are interested in staking into the Vault. We are going to launch two different vaults. One is going to be a vault staking PWT and the other one is for staking WST tokens. The function itself is similar to a DeFi staking, as you will get WSTE tokens. This is based on technical background. WSTE tokens will have the same value as a WST token. We will impl...

#9 Spotlight on Poloniex CLAMS FLASH CRASH EFFECT ON POLONIEX TRADERS AND MORE -- by @samsuccess with a current reward of 17 SBD

image source The Poloniex exchange is one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency market platforms in the world. It provides the largest amount of trading in Bitcoins. Poloniex, or Polo, offers its customers highlevel security by the use of twofactor authentication, handy analytical and technical tools, low transaction fees from 0 to 0.25 and more than 140 directions for exchange. What Happened Poloniex, had a flash crash on May 26, 2019, when the price of clams CLAM tumbled. Rep...

#10 Lets get to know about Poloniex The legendary cryptocurrency exchange -- by @vishwara with a current reward of 14 SBD

source 1source 2 Day by day we can see the digital currency markets get highly recognized and popular in recent years. Investors are looking for the best ways to conduct their business with the quickly changing crypto world. You may have seen many new tokens, currencies, apps, and modes of fundraising have entered the markets. This is an industry which changes very quickly. Therefore the investors are much cautions about the potential security risks that may face in future. Poloniex...

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