Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 370 SBD and 21294 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 Steem Bluepaper Read Aloud with commentary -- by @coingallant with a current reward of 34 SBD

Watch on 3Speak The Steem Bluepaper Read Aloud with commentary Feel free to change video setting to 1.5x playback as there is a lot to read.... The Steem bluepaper is a bit shorter than the whitepaper. It starts off by describing what Steem is and what it does, then goes into other features of the blockchain and the token. The Steem bluepaper goes into detail regarding the reward pool, the voting system, proof of brain, token distribution, and transaction speeds. I always get ex...

#2 Closing the Tokenomics Loop Steem Monsters -- by @lukestokes with a current reward of 25 SBD

Tokenomics is a term I see thrown around to describe the unique emergent properties of economic systems built using cryptocurrency tokens. The magic trick is creating a token from nothing and then convincing people it has value. steemmonsters has done exactly that, but they didnt stop there. They continually innovate with new incentives to close the economic loop to maintain a good economic story the players believe in. For example, they have different classes of cards alpha, beta, etc alon...

#3 The media is racebaiting again. -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

Get ready for this one if it hasnt already hit your FB feeds because it is coming. Most people arent even bothering to put any context to the image anymore, or even read the details behind the situation. They are simply outraged for the sake of being outraged and well, i suppose that is what is popular in USA at the moment. source The headline is Photo of Mounted Police Leading Black Man by a Rope Prompts Outrage. It is very easy for me to understand why that would be the case but her...

#4 The People vs. O.J. Simpson FX Netflix series first reactions -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

As someone that was a teenager during the actual O.J. Simpson trials, I can attest to the fact that pretty much everyone was following the crazy events that took place during those times. I would imagine that this show was actually pretty difficult to make because the producers would be putting themselves in a lot of legal danger if they misrepresented certain characters. source There are a lot of reasons to see this series. The number one reason is that it was an extremely relevan...

#5 Today in History Babe Ruth sets a record that still stands today -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

Even if you dont like baseball, you almost certainly have heard of Babe Ruth, maybe you just like candy bars with peanuts in them. I dunno. source The record I am referring to is an obscure one, and really depends on the rest of the team as well because regardless of how good you are, you cant get this record unless your teammates know how to hit also. In case you dont know what a grand slam is, it isnt just a tremendous value for eggs at Dennys. It is when all 3 bases already hav...

#6 They Wont Kill The Internet. The Reason Why Is Epic VIDEO -- by @dollarvigilante with a current reward of 14 SBD

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone in the world is talking about Bitcoin? Politicians and banksters have special committees and meetings to try and figure out what to do about crypto nearly every day. Theyve even discussed the term a on the floor of the legislature I shit you not! When I began recommending Bitcoin back in 2011 a was 3, the debate was whether or not blockchain technology will ever catch on. Now, the debate is more like, how long will it take to catch on,...

#7 Mosaeek Review! The future of Video Interactions! -- by @tanbay with a current reward of 10 SBD

a Check out and also check out my interactive video on there where you can give me a video response I think this is a great way to interact with video content in a new and very personal way and I believe this is something that could benefit a lot of creators! So in my video I give you a detailed review of my first impressions and I also mention the Mosaeek FAQ page, here it is for reference Watch the YouTube version of my video here youtube.comwatch?vEGm2dGwZJ0 If you found this vide...

#8 The moon was a solution about Apollo 11. -- by @anaerwu with a current reward of 9 SBD

Fifty years ago people landed on the moon. This sentence in recent months we heard a lot of times, did not arouse my emotions. Not because fifty years is a big time perspective less than a hundred years, its recently as my father once told me, but because in my lifetime I watched humanity less and less eagerly going into space. Rather, the slogan of the decade was lets cut NASAs budget and not Reach for the stars and although everyone looks at Mars with hope, in my lifetime no one walked o...

#9 Unfinished Works -- by @hiddenblade with a current reward of 8 SBD

classtextjustify Welcome to another episode of Hiddenblade The Master Procrastinator. In this episode you will see some of my unfinished works in the past few years. Damn, I just realized 80 of my works are actually unfinished. p So this one was drawn with charcoal in 2014. I was exploring techniques in using charcoal and at the same time practicing my drawing skills. I am not a fan of hyperrealisticphotorealistic drawings because it made no sense to me. Why would I spend days to finish...

#10 Advertisement and our mindset. -- by @rubaet with a current reward of 7 SBD

Image Advertisement affects directly on our lifestyle. Yeah, its not a passive thing anymore. If you go on the street, even on the country road; you will at least see a advertising bill board. And this is affecting our mindset, way of living, culture and everything. No one is actually out of this circle. I am taking about the value system of our society which directly affects by advertisement. We are all consumer in this marketing world. Just look at your social media feed or even a p...

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