Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 1891 SBD and 12313 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 3Speak The Ultimate dApp Walk Through Part 2 of 3 -- by @coingallant with a current reward of 48 SBD

Watch on 3Speak 3Speak The Ultimate dApp Walk Through Part 2 of 3 210 The home page 309 Speak SPK token 414 Left side navigation 539 The footer 622 The creator studio Hello and welcome to this video walk through, demonstrating the new free speech video platform, 3Speak.online, also threespeak on Steemit. Todays installment will show you the ins and outs of the website which will allow you to navigate it better to make your experience more enjoyable. If you havent seen Part...

#2 BTC May Be REPEATING The 2017 Bubble POP! -- by @sami-loyal with a current reward of 45 SBD

Watch on 3Speak This market trading analysis applies to various exchanges, including Bitmex and Binance. Tackling questions like if Bitcoin can reach 20k again and if we will be seeing a crypto currency market recovery this year. Things like the lightning network have provided huge improvements for BTC and while it is true that others like Roger Ver with Bitcoin Cash bcash may disagree, I do see these blockchain technology innovations to be very bullish fundamental signs for the spa...

#3 Bitcoin Goes Parabolic Past 13K The Banks Are Caught In A Pickle -- by @nicholasmerten with a current reward of 43 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Want to save up to 40 on your hotel booking? Try Travala What are your thoughts on what we discussed? Do you think that we may see some banks collapse in 2020? 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 the channel? Here are some ways how Want to start trading a wi...

#4 Children Playing in the water in the Square -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 41 SBD

The grownups were getting ready for a demonstration. In the meantime, the children were playing in the water around the fountain in the square. The children were running around in an innocent way. I watched the children play water in the square. What if we could look at the world like children? There will be no reason to conflict and fight with each other.; Preparations were going well for the demonstration around the childrens play, but the children were enjoying the water regardless of the...

#5 In true Orwellian form, the fake definition of fascism goes mainstream on Joe Rogan -- by @theouterlight with a current reward of 38 SBD

Watch on 3Speak Recently Joe Rogan interviewed Andy Ngo. In the interview Joe Rogan read out the definition of fascism on screen, which was based upon a Google search that referenced Wikipedia. Andy Ngo and Joe Rogan then went on to talk about the definition of fascism that was read out. Andy Ngo said he agreed with the definition. But little did both of them know, in true Orwellian fashion, the very definition of fascism they had read out and went on to talk about, was a recently i...

#6 Peaky Blinders Im really trying to like it.... -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 29 SBD

Exactly what the title says. I want to understand why it is that this is one of the more popular shows in existance right now and a lot of people are comparing it to the Sopranos or Boardwalk Empire. source It is in many ways exactly like Boardwalk Empire in that it very loosely based on actual events although this time in Birmingham, England in the early 1900s and it based around the Shelbys who are a gangster family that actually existed and their exploits in semiorganized crime after...

#7 Netflix wont use 2FA despite continual user info hacks -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 28 SBD

2FA stands for Two Factor Authorization and since most of the people on here are a bunch of nerds you probably already knew that P Netflix is continually slammed by the press and their own userbase for not including this extra step in their product and as someone whose account was recently compromised along with many other people in Thailand I can relate to how it makes me feel knowing that my personal information is now in the hands of someone out there and all I can do is hope that the...

#8 Gaming headphones official vs copy brand -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 28 SBD

Now I dont know if this applies to people in the west as much as it does over here but we have a tremendous variety of options when it comes to electronic accessories. Some of it is the usual made in China garbage that falls apart in no time and of course that should be avoided but there are a ton of mid card stuff that you can gamble on and hope for the best also. A friend of mine had the official headsets featured left above and i was simply using the little earbud thing that came w...

#9 Today in History FDR announces he will run for 4th term as president -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 28 SBD

Because it is now a rule, we tend to forget that some time ago Presidents of the United States could run for the office as many times as they wanted to. Most Presidents stuck to a 2term limit as was established by George Washington, but this was not an official rule but more of a courtesy. source Franklin Delano Roosevelt, mor commonly known as FDR, presumably to save on printer ink is a bit of a legend as Presidents are concerned because of many reasons. He was elected president durin...

#10 Photographer captures Olive Python eating Australian Freshwater Crocodile whole! -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 26 SBD

Last month, kayaker Martin Muller got quite the show when he was out on his morning excursion. Kayaking around Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia, spied something that would make even to most stoic among us squeamish; a python and a crocodile locked in an epic battle. Rather than run for the hills, Martin kept his distance and patiently captured the pair of carnivores duking it out over the next few hours. Unlike invasive species of Burmese Pythons found in Florida, the olive python is n...

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