Here is how the Steemit Trending Page would look like without Bid Bots and Self Votes! (03.08.2019)

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Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 474 SBD and 14699 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 The Road to Steem Fest Budgeting -- by @anomadsoul with a current reward of 46 SBD

classtextjustifyWe all know that attending Steem Fest in Thailand is an investment on our Steem journey, but it doesnt come cheap. There are flights to pay, hotels to book, expenses to cover and a Steem Fest ticket to enjoy the full experience. All of this costs Fiat except the SF tickets which you can buy with crypto. How much do you have to spend? Have you already made some numbers? How far are you on saving the amount required? Are you planning to pay on Steem or Fiat? Tell us all a...

#2 EP199 Wall St just keeps kicking Tesla -- by @ninjavideo with a current reward of 30 SBD

a Hi everyone! Hope youre all well! Welcome to my video made exclusively for D.Tube. Tesla delivered a record number of vehicles last quarter, it nearly doubled the cash it has in the bank to 5.6Billion and released that its making 18.9 of profit on each Model 3, which outsold all its competitors combined... and Wall St analysts declared it was a massive failure, and the shares then crashed from 264 to 228, wiping out 7Billion of market valuation. Its not cool. I can only imagine its b...

#3 Delegation Committee First Communication -- by @delegationtrust with a current reward of 22 SBD

The Delegation Committee is extremely excited by this opportunity and are happy to get started working on a comprehensive approach to delegation. Its a great opportunity to serve on this advisory committee to Steemit Inc and help attract new users as well as accelerate the growth of existing businesses and communities to the Steem blockchain. Weve already set a weekly meeting time, had our first meetings and agreed upon the following list of tasks that need to be accomplished and present...

#4 Discord App Overview and Tutorial -- by @coingallant with a current reward of 21 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Discord App Overview and Tutorial Online gamers across the globe are more than likely familiar with Discord. But, there are a lot of people in the cryptoverse who may not have much experience with this app. Hence, I created this video tutorial. This app overview touches upon the features of the Discord app and how to navigate them efficiently. When I first came to Discord, I was used to using Skype which operates in a different manner, so it took me a few days to s...

#5 Easy Brown Sugar Maple Cookies -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 20 SBD

You know what they say, invention is borne of necessity. In this case the necessity was my lack of vanilla extract and my need for soft, yummy cookies. As we had just returned from a trip and had yet to make a grocery run, we were low on a few baking basics; no vanilla extract, no white sugar, one measly egg. Baking is a science, but its not always an exact one. There is wiggle room for substitutions and experimentation. Sometimes its a disaster, or sometimes it works like a charm, as ...

#6 Bullies on the blockchain -- by @acidyo with a current reward of 20 SBD

It was brought to my attention lately from a Steem user that theres a big account farming rewards and voting up spam, now while I realize there are many doing the same, accounts such as Haejin, this one seemed somewhat new and was under the impression that just because he had purchased stake it meant that he could use it however he wanted to allocate rewards from the reward pool. Now dont get me wrong, I know about most of the bad activity that goes on on the platform due to the broken eco...

#7 Today in History Christopher Columbus journey begins -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

The year was 1492 and we all know the story of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. There is some grey area in there that I only recently learned about how dude didnt actually discover America. source I dont know why everyone was so surprised and amazed that he found land to the west... thats a pretty detailed map of the world hes got there I was shocked, SHOCKED to find out that Columbus didnt discover the States, but as it turns out he never set foot anywhere in North Amer...

#8 BlueEnriched Light Bulbs -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 19 SBD

We are starting to do some renovations to the house. The first phase is lighting upgrades; installing dimmer switches everywhere and converting from incandescent to LED fixtures and bulbs. While were at it, were paying a lot of attention to the quality and temperature of lighting measured in degrees Kelvin as it has a real impact as to how well you see and how you feel; Im happy to report were on the right track. The temperature of light has to do with the color thats emitted when an obje...

#9 My favorite bar expanded and renovated and now i hate it -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

This isnt the first time this has happened in my life. I recall my favorite e bar in college was just some terrible, dirty, probably in violation of health code holeinthewall that we all loved. It was cheap, it was cheerful, and it was normally very busy mostly with people drinking underage but whatever! Then, when they experienced success, they kept closing in order to renovate, normally poorly, and after a while their customer base got tired of them always being shut and found somewher...

#10 The Stream The Canvas vol. 2 -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 19 SBD

DISCLAIMER This post is part of an ongoing stream of consciousness series. While each part can be enjoyed as a standalone piece, they will be best experienced when read in order. If youd like to read from the beginning, the first part can be found here. The Canvas Whats behind the curtain? A rolled up lump of cardboard, dismantled, discarded.. An Ace once up the sleeve, now in a hole.. Dithering Diamonds disguise themselves dying a dormant existence. FarFlung Fledglings flounder ...

So? What is your opinion about these non-bot trending posts? Before I forget, do not miss out on checking my other top list of DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS to help minnows and promote good content! Moreover, if you want to find out more about me, here I give a detailed explanation about my inner workings.

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