Here is how the Steemit Trending Page would look like without Bid Bots and Self Votes! (04.08.2019)

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Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 715 SBD and 12094 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 Vienna Part 1 Public Transport -- by @erikah with a current reward of 24 SBD

Three weeks ago I had the chance to spend three days in Vienna and Id like to share my experience with you. Three days are far from enough to visit everything but its a start and enough to get an idea about the city, people, culture etc. Vienna is the federal capital of Austria and the biggest city, having a total population of almost 1.9 million people. Its a big city with an amazing history and luckily most of the historical buildings are well taken care of and open to public. If...

#2 Building plans show Epstein wanted to build an underground movie theatre -- by @theouterlight with a current reward of 24 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Recently building plans show that Jeffery Epstein built things very different than what he applied for. One of these buildings was Epsteins temple structure which looked nothing like the permit for the building plan the permit depicts architectural plans for an octagonal structure with four doors inside to different rooms including a bathhouse. The structure that was built, Epsteins Temple, is far smaller and square and via visual analysis by researchers seems to ha...

#3 3 RockSolid Reasons to Believe in Electroneum -- by @coingallant with a current reward of 23 SBD

Watch on 3Speak 3 RockSolid Reasons to Believe in Electroneum Welcome back to another video my friends. Electroneum ETN is one of the many cryptocurrency projects that I strongly believe in. This video goes into detail explaining the reasons why I believe in the project and how it has the potential to change the way the world uses their mobile devices aka cell phones. 030 The Team 243 Real World Use Cases 503 Mass Adoption After watching the video, please drop a comment below...

#4 Can You Feel The Love Tonight Elton John cover -- by @silentscreamer with a current reward of 20 SBD

a After a few long weeks we are ready to present the first of hopefully many videos like this. For a very long time i have wanted to take the next step in my content creation and that was hard to do with the price of Steem going down. When the price is going down the effort to create high quality videos remains the same but the rewards never seem to be worth taking out to invest into something greater. heimindanger talked about something in his dtube announcement post a few days ago w...

#5 Today in history Elvis releases Hound Dog -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

I think if you were to ask the general public to name an Elvis Presley song, there is a good chance that Hound Dog might finish somewhere near the top of that list, if not on the very top. The year was 1956 and Elvis was about to release one of his most popular songs, ever. However, the story behind it is something that I dont think most people know about. source For starters, Hound Dog isnt an Elvis original, which i suppose in todays times where very few top acts actually write t...

#6 activists government can tell you what to do with your own property -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

I dont know if you know much about Denver, Colorado but I know a bit. It is one of those cities that for someone conservative like me, seems like a place that you would rather avoid. I love Colorado, itis one of the most beautiful places in the USA, but there are some strange attitudes held by the people of the Denver. In a recent I cant believe I am reading this moment, i found out about a story in Denver where a man wants to retire and sell off his land business but some busybody activ...

#7 John Wick 3 film As good as the other ones -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

Im one of the many people out there that have really enjoyed these films and the third installment might even be the most actionpacked of the series thus far. source The stories in these films are intertwined, but to be honest, you wont really be that confused if you dont see the first 2 before watching 3. I would imagine that such knowledge enhances the experience but it isnt essential to it. I think that I enjoyed John Wick 1 the most out of the bunch because John was a mystery to e...

#8 The Number 23 film Honestly much better than I expected -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

I had avoided watching this movie until yesterday because of some information I received about it not being very good. I definitely disagree with the information that I got and thoroughly enjoyed this movie. source This film came out in 2007 and this was a time when Jim Carrey was really trying to break the stigma of his being typecast as a whimsical actor specifically designed for comedy. There have been a number of attempts on Jims part and some were good, others not so much. I thi...

#9 Travel Digest 588 -- by @steemitworldmap with a current reward of 18 SBD

Hi there its lizanomadsoul here with the weekend edition of the TravelDigest. All featured posts will be upvoted through steemitworldmap and everyone in the top 3 will receive 100 Snax courtesy of crowdmind.All featured posts will be put on the a Choice Map.For more like this check out traveldigest. hr classwpblockseparator a Haveys Australia amp; New Zealand Adventure Part 19 Abel Tasman to Franz Josef, South Island NZ by nickyhavey Heading South It was a pretty epic journey and hike t...

#10 Sunday Multivitamins Digging Deeper Than You Already Have -- by @zord189 with a current reward of 17 SBD

classwpimage2572 sizelarge alt width770 height578 br Photo by a Van on UnsplashFinally getting some air for me. Woke up in the afternoon today and just finally had some time to myself to just do whatever I want to do. The stress is still lingering but its not as bad anymore after taking time off to recuperate for the past two days. Friday night at the office, my leads and I had a small internal chat to just see how everyone was doing. It did help a great deal to check up on how your tea...

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