Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 938 SBD and 23130 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 A blow fish dream Vision -- by @longer with a current reward of 35 SBD

Greetings steemians Have you ever had that situation when youre really really tired but you try to continue what youre doing reading a book, drawing etc and suddenly your brain stats to hallucinate and drifts away ? I have many times. From what Ive heard Salvadore Dali used that dreamy visions state to get inspirations for his paintings. Form what I recall he used to seat with a teaspoon in his hand when he was worn out and the moment he was falling asleep the teaspoon fell from his han...

#2 Satanic film Sorry Haley, this movie is dumb SPOILERS -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD

The only reason why I watched this is because of Sarah Hyland and it is quite obvious that the makers of the film were kind of banking on her star power to carry this film as well. Ill try not to hold it against her, but this movie is bad... i mean really bad. source So some teens who are fascinated with the macabre decide to travel to California to do a dark tour of various sites affiliated with Satanism. They stay in a hotel room that someone affiliated with Satanism committed sui...

#3 The Good View restaurant bar Chiang Mai A nice midrange place on the river -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

Thailand is known for their widearray of cheap food available pretty much everywhere. Ill be honest and say that this place is NOT cheap but cost is all a matter of perspective. The Good View has a nice atmosphere, and scenic location on the Ping River, and a ton of staff.... This costs money and is the reason why it could be considered a bit expensive. source This extremely popular place is close enough to downtown to be easily accessed by anyone staying visiting the city, but far e...

#4 Today in History Pete Rose ties all time hit record -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

The record had stood for a very long time and was previously held by Ty Cobb, a legend so far gone that the world didnt even have television during is career. So tying the record for number of hits ever, was kind of a big deal. source The year was 1985 and at least for me, was a time that baseball was still very popular with youth. Everyone collected baseball cards and while we didnt normally watch the games due to lack of having access to them everyone was a fan. All of my pals playe...

#5 Why Cant I Love You...Shower?! -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 18 SBD

We all have our dirty little secrets that wed be better off without. I have tons of habits holding me back.. but this one is just.. filthy.. Find out what else I would make my life better.. if only I could convince myself to do it.. in the next edition of.. Why Cant I Love You..?! !Copy of Why Cant I love you.. shower.png Yup.. you caught me muddy handed.. I admit it, I loathe the loofah. Many people jump out of bed and straight into the shower for their morning cleansing. Not I.. The th...

#6 Onboarding and getting tagged Premium -- by @tarazkp with a current reward of 13 SBD

steemitblog released a communication post with their intention on how they are going to push for mass adoption and onboarding through the development of communities, SMTs to empower their incentive models and light accounts. AS they said I like this. A lot. The reason is that while the internet is full of free services, as soon as one wants to start making money from it, it is going to start costing and people pay. I dont know what the current pricing is but in 2016 the average cost...

#7 Tutorial FIRST POST on Steemit! -- by @tanbay with a current reward of 12 SBD

a Sign up to Steemit here Download the Brave browser and get rewarded for browsing Subscribe In this video I will take a look at the official Steemit FAQs and I show you what your first post could look like! Here is the url of the page for reference Blockchain explained a Download the Brave browser and get rewarded for browsing Learn how to travel the world without paying for accommodation a If you found this video helpful make a donation BTC 1D2gUo3XR7orHhZXdhHU...

#8 What is the best way to increase Bitcoin awareness? VIDEO -- by @dollarvigilante with a current reward of 10 SBD

If you havent seen this hilarious new animated web series, you need to watch a and Friends as soon as possible! Storytelling is a powerful tool which has been lacking in the a revolution. Stories captivate our minds and focus our energies. Bitcoin was created as an answer to crony capitalism and central banking. The saga of how cryptocurrency came to be is both a remarkable tale and history in the making. While the technology itself continues to a and grow however, public unde...

#9 Preemptive Attack Before It Becomes A Necessity D00k13 Digest 430 -- by @d00k13 with a current reward of 10 SBD

a iframe width560 height315 frameborder0 allowaccelerometer; autoplay; encryptedmedia; gyroscope; pictureinpicture allowfullscreen What up my peeps, welcome to the D00k13 Digest, being faced with both of the major reasons for quitting smokinghealth expense I have decided to not wait till my move is over as I had previously mentioned but instead go ahead and just quit now. The health reasons of the equation is not actually a major player this time rather it is the financial reasons, sim...

#10 I want to meet You, You You Road to SteemFest 4 -- by @soyrosa with a current reward of 9 SBD

Still being grateful for all the people Ive met in November of 2018, I can now start dreaming about all those people I might meet this year. Although Im not sure Ill go yet, I do carefully look forward to meeting some people that I know will go to Bangkok coming November. Some of them I have met already, and it will probably be something like a big sweaty hug once I see them again. Im not going to mention all these fine people I bet they know who they are. I have however been asked to...

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