Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 900 SBD and 20106 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 Key Bitcoin Indicators Im Watching To Spot The Bottom -- by @nicholasmerten with a current reward of 64 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Check out Velas Blockchain Check out my upcoming conferences Discount Code LTCLV19DD Discount Code DATADAS0OFF What are your thoughts on what we discussed? Do you feel well see price return to the two indicators mentioned? Feel free to leave a comment below! Thank you all so much for watching the video. If you enjoyed the video, please consider dropping a like, subscribing, and ringing the bell icon. Email List Steem User ID nicholasmerten Want to support...

#2 Whitney Webb Interview Jeffrey Epstein A US History Of Sexual Blackmail Infiltrating Politics -- by @tlavagabond with a current reward of 32 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Joining me today is one of my favorite returning guests, Whitney Webb, who just wrote a fantastic article with part 2 in the series coming out today and linked below that really exposes the reality, not just of a network of powerful people behind the scenes conducting horrific acts, but of a systematic problem that goes back decades, and connects to, and was covered up ignored by some of the most powerful people around today; connecting to the CIA, US government off...

#3 Today in History Mickey Mouse was born -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

Mickey Mouse is without question the most famous cartoon character of all time and a short film entitled Steamboat Willie is where it all began. source The year was 1928 and an empire was about to be born based almost exclusively on the success of the little mouse. The short film was not shown to the public until November of 1928. This was NOT the first Mickey film however. That honor belongs to a previous episode named Plane Crazy and was shown initially only in a private screening ...

#4 Age of Tanks documentary series Interesting, but they screwed up some major aspects -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

I quite enjoy documentaries about war and war machines. Im not sure why this is, probably because of my fascinations with World War II. This is a decent documentary that makes a couple of really annoying mistakes in the first two episodes but overall, for someone who appreciates war history, this series was quite informative and welldone. source The series begins really early on during a time when certain iniduals came up with the idea for armored vehicles that could cross all terrai...

#5 Anything can be racist! -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

So I get a lot of amusement watching the news stations crawl all over themselves to try to paint conservative politicians as racist, sexist, homophobic, whateverwordyoucanthinkofphobic. The obvious toptier target of this is Donald Trump, who recently called Baltimore a rat infested dump or something along those lines and then later said No human being would want to live there. Of course the media jackaloons jumped on this like fat people at a donut buffet. source Let me ask Joe Wals...

#6 Seresto dog collar tick prevention 3 months in -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

After dealing with constant tick presence on my doge friend for months after moving to the North of Thailand, I was getting a bit irritated and went online to find out the best of tick prevention. I saw a bunch of testimonials about a collar called Seresto that claimed to prevent ticks and fleas, which was never an issue for me for up to a year, all with a collar. source After 3 months, I can say that while this thing is quite expensive more than 50 that it really does work. I had my d...

#7 You asked for more curation? -- by @tarazkp with a current reward of 19 SBD

A bit over a week ago I wrote a post about creating an account babytarazkp that would hold my staked steemengine tokens and follow my vote at 100 with them, and I thought I would check in and see what it has been up to. and its VP is shot. PAL 3400 PAL Equivalent to a 0.16 STEEM vote LEO 4000 LEO Equivalent to a 0.21 STEEM vote estimated Neoxian 700 NEOXAG Equivalent to a 0.08 STEEM vote Creativecoin 4600 CCC Equivalent a to 1.7 STEEM vote So what that means is th...

#8 Thruhiking Skgar to Leirubakki the longest marked trek in Iceland -- by @dhimmel with a current reward of 13 SBD

Icelands longest continuous marked trail, some say. Where the night is not, the wind wails, the rain rages, and geysers gurgle. Starting June 15, 2019, I hiked from Skgar to Leirubakki in Iceland. My five day trek covered the following connected trails 1. Fimmvruhls Trail Skgar and rsmrk, 24 km 2. Laugavegur Trail rsmrk to Landmannalaugar, 63 km 3. Hellismannalei Trail Landmannalaugar to Rjupnavellir, 55 km 4. Hellismannalei Trail Extension Rjpnavellir to Leirubakki, 25 km The hike totale...

#9 the hype is real, reviewhunt closed beta launches in 2 days! pumped -- by @teamhumble with a current reward of 12 SBD

a pumped to see the annoucement today! lets get after it. some smart decisions made in day one! this is gonna be big for the whole decentralized brand advocate and influencer market place over the next year to come! powered by an existing erc20 token thats trading already on an exchange. not some ICO that has not even made a product yet, this exists, is real and people are doing business on it. already 100 companiespeople and 700k of initial marketing spend in month one! I knew ...

#10 Tyranny Checklist censored on YT -- by @drutter with a current reward of 11 SBD

Watch on 3Speak In early 2011 when my channel was thriving and censorship hadnt become too bad yet this footage began to go viral. Just as momentum appeared to be going exponential, all new views stopped, and the video allbut disappeared. Have you, or someone you love, been troubled by any of the following conditions? Corruption and fraud within government? Conspiracy, also known as secret plots? Censorship? Dumbing down of the populace through such means as chemicals harmful...

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