Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 739 SBD and 15181 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 Utopian is joining a new family! Imminent Changes -- by @utopian-io with a current reward of 33 SBD

We would like to inform you that after several months of discussions, Utopian is ready to announce a big switch; a new company, comprised of a group of European entrepreneurs with proven experience in managing and growing innovative startups on the blockchain and beyond, is getting formed. The Utopian company, which has so far been located in Italy, is moving; Italy has yet to provide clear guidelines on the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrency. As part of our strategic changes, a new bo...

#2 Today in History Norway Youth League Massacre -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD

I think this one kind of gets swept under the rug since everyone focuses on USA so much as far as gun crime is concerned but in 2011 a mass shooting of extreme proportions took place on this day. source A remorseless Anders Behring Breivik appears in court On July 22nd, 2011 Norway was hit with two simultaneous terror attacks that were planned and carried out by one person. Anders Behring Breivik detonated a van bomb in Oslo first and this killed 8 people. After calmly driving away...

#3 Mages of Mystralia PS4 Adventure game with a bunch of problems -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD

I thought it looked like Zelda and that is why i decided to get it... that and the fact that it was 60 off. httpshb.ix.netdf3f4271273b2e4e0103c61f31b4f899db1f96d1.jpg?autocompress,formatfitcroph353w616seb6cca3a4052e54a629d02f0b7d5e2bc sourcehttpshb.ix.netdf3f4271273b2e4e0103c61f31b4f899db1f96d1.jpg?autocompress,formatfitcroph353w616seb6cca3a4052e54a629d02f0b7d5e2bc The main draw to this game, and I presume this is true for a lot of people, is because it is a fantasy adventure game, the g...

#4 The Cabin in the Woods film A real treat for horror film fans -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

For anyone out there that has seen their fair share of horror flicks, particularly ones from the 80s that all seemed to have certain frustrating elements in them, The Cabin in the Woods is a brilliant homage to the art. source While not purely a comedy, The Cabin in the Woods certainly does have its comedic moments but they are more subtle than simply having one liners. The lengths they go to in order to slip certain typical aspects of horror flicks into this film are so frequent it mak...

#5 Accumulation Mode -- by @oldtimer with a current reward of 14 SBD

The time has come for the big step. I did some changes lately about my life on blockchain strategy but today is the day. Delegated most of my 95K steem to different projects to collect some coinz actifit, roadofrich, wherein, and travelfeed are my current selection. I also have a lot of coins in dlike, dporn, and steemhunt. Over 2K steemmonsters cards too. magicdice and steembet screwed me over, tho but thats the name of the game. In my Steemengine wallet, I have thousands of differen...

#6 I Received 999.99 Steem For My 2nd Steemit Birthday!!! -- by @purepinay with a current reward of 11 SBD

I was scrolling through my notifications on my partiko app, when I saw this.. Oh hey, I received 999.99 Steem for my 2nd Steemit Birthday! Yepeeeee! Am so exhilarated! Ive been wanting to buy more Steem at this dip but I couldnt coz I didnt have any extra digital money and so many expenses this month. Greatful to my partner for the gift! I was teasing him about my Steemit birthday and told him if he wants to buy me a gift he can just buy me some Steem. Then he asked me, are sure yo...

#7 The steemstem.io app gets faster and a better organisation of the main page -- by @lemouth-dev with a current reward of 11 SBD

The last update concerning the development of a is quite old last April. I apologise for that. As already said in my a blog, my particle physics job drove me crazy in terms of time demand for the last few months, but the completion of 1907.04898 was a kind of new authorisation to breathe. I am hence again available for SteemSTEM and I restarted the development of the SteemSTEM app 10 days ago. I am happy today to publicly announce the first outcome of what I did. Please remember that I...

#8 Depression Symptoms and Warning Signs -- by @healthdear with a current reward of 10 SBD

!Depression Symptoms Warning Signs Depression is bad can lead to many problems. Do you think that you are felling depressed? Are you finding it hard to get things done or getting back your concentration levels? These are some of the early signswarnings a person need to watch out to know if he is really leading a depressed life. Its ok and absolutely fine to be sad at times when we are going through a rough path in our lives. But when you are not able to come out of these deprived or s...

#9 50 years of the great mission Apollo 11 bound for the Moon July1969 -- by @oscarcede with a current reward of 10 SBD

50 years have passed since the historic mission Apollo 11 to the Moon. Those days from July 16 to 24, 1969, were unforgettable for me. I was 12 years old and, despite his young age, I remember that on the morning of July 16 he started the countdown to the launch from Cape Canaberal in the United States. USA UU., Saturn V Rocket, which would propel Apollo 11 to the Moon. Source1 Source2 That day, July 16, 1969, everyone in my house was in front of the black and white television to watch th...

#10 Mayan brothers -- by @edgaruvm with a current reward of 9 SBD

Hey yall! Welcome to another step by step showcase! jazz hands Today, Im gonna walk yall through this painting of two precontact Mayan lads as I envision them. I did some online research and pulled some reference first. This allowed me to get a good idea for the kind of weapons, clothes, and hair styles that could have been typical. I tried not to go overboard with body markings or piercings. I kind of wanted them to look like a couple of local lads rather than guys straight out of Apoca...

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