Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 468 SBD and 17638 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 Overview of recent unsealed 2000 court documents in Jeffery Epstein case -- by @theouterlight with a current reward of 30 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Recently 2000 court documents were released in regards to a lawsuit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Jeffery Epsteins madam Ghislaine Maxwell. Virginia Roberts Giuffre brought the lawsuit against Ghislanie Maxwell but settled for an undisclosed amount in 2017. The massive trove of documents which had been under seal by the court are now in the process of being released. Within the documents researchers have found a large volume of new information in relation to t...

#2 Steemit Partners with Morpheus Labs for SteemasaService -- by @steem.marketing with a current reward of 29 SBD

The Steemit Team is excited to announce our partnership with Morpheus Labs. It is Steemits mission to make Steem the easiest, lowest cost, and most powerful blockchain protocol in the world for powering applications, because we believe this is the key to onboarding the masses to the blockchain. Thats why we are excited to be working with Morpheus Labs to make Steem a BlockchainPlatformasaService BPaas, making it easier than ever to power applications with blockchain technology. We look fo...

#3 CHiPs film Not great, but has its moments -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

I suppose you would have to be a bit older to remember the CHiPs show from the late 70s early 80s TV show with the same name but that is what this show is meant to be based on. However, in reality this movie has almost nothing to do with the original show other than the fact that one of the cops is a white guy and the other is Hispanic. source CHiPSs is a comedy... a slapstick comedy that attempts to infuse some more intelligent stuff into the storyline but fails for the most part a...

#4 US film Its ok, but i dont understand the hype to be honest -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 19 SBD

After seeing the first Jordan Peele film entitled Get Out which was actually really good I was excited to see his sophomore approach to filmmaking. Contrary to the popular opinion on this movie, i found it to be boring and even annoying at times. source Its not that the story isnt good, because in a way it is good, plus once you have all the pieces to the puzzle not gonna spoil that for ya the story becomes even better. However, along the way there are aspects of the movie that are jus...

#5 Throwback to my long forgotten CSGO skills -- by @acidyo with a current reward of 14 SBD

Here are some videos I managed to record way back when I was playing CSGO on my old PC. The reason I mention its on that PC is cause most recordings are from playbacks of the games and not live, thus on the minimap you can see where the enemies are as well its not a hack. Anyway, promoting Steemit somewhat at the same time we had some fun, I miss my new PC and hope to be reunited with it soon again to see if there is any skill left in these hands and if my handtoeye coordination is still som...

#6 Today Im 3! -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 13 SBD

Well, its been a helluva ride so far! Im not planning on going anywhere either. Steem Monsters is kicking ass. I think well be sold out of Betas this month. Steem Engine is signing up some more companies and people with existing communities. PAL price is a little down, but user base is growing and more tokens are staked. Im witnessing blocks every day. Price of Steem sucks, but life is pretty good. I want a world thats filled with Peace, Abundance, and Liberty. When my kids are ol...

#7 What you need to know about Santiment -- by @belemo with a current reward of 11 SBD

At the time of writing, Coinmarketcap shows that the total market cap of the top 100 cryptocurrencies is at 309,997,070,376. That is absolutely astronomical for something TrumpPOTUS claims is based on thin air while referring to Bitcoin in one of his tweets. That hasnt seemed to deter anyone and as trends show, as bitcoin has been rallying lately and I bet early investors are smiling to the bank right now. However, the question to ask is, how can one track these trends and benefit from thi...

#8 Finding a safe haven for your data is how we promote data privacy, Can Dock.io Help? -- by @chekohler with a current reward of 10 SBD

Data ownership and data privacy have become quite the topic of discussion over the last couple of years as social media, search engines and eCommerce sites all continue to collect vast amounts of data points on all of us using these paid and free services. The datadriven economy has seen a boom with services like Facebook, LinkedIn and Google all hoarding vast amounts of data and collating them into advertising profiles they can either sell off to advertisers or use to manipulate certain u...

#9 LEARN DAVINCI RESOLVE TITLES IN 1 HOUR Complete Guide for Beginners -- by @christutorials with a current reward of 10 SBD

a Walkthrough for beginners on using video titles in DaVinci Resolve 16 and how to create your own custom titles from scratch. Topics covered include fusion nodes, exporting and installing titles, a from scratch 3D title example, and more. This is my definitive guide for beginners to get started in using and understanding titles in DaVinci Resolve. Chris Recommends Best Browser Best Free VPN Best Online Coupon Shopping App See My Full Software Courses Also Follow Me On St...

#10 Five Sports Video Games I Wish They Made 20192020 -- by @jon.bonomo with a current reward of 9 SBD

Five Sports Video Games I Wish They Made Consoles PS4Xbox One Would you play these games? Next gen PS5 news suggest maybe. Today Im throwing out my wish list of the sports video games I wish were made today or upcoming for new consoles. Some of these games have existed in the past but no longer do, or they are games that exist but are only for mobile devices or other poorly designed attempts. Im going to cover the overall concept for the game, as well delve into a few key game mechanic...

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