Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 25299 SBD and 1872 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 My First Vlog Ever On Steemit The 3 Main Reasons I Love Being A Part of the Steemit Community! -- by @lifetipsbysn with a current reward of 231 SBD

a Hi Steemit Community! Today I am sharing my first ever vlog on Steemit and look forward in continuing to speak on a variety of topics! The topic I chose to speak on today are the 3 main reasons I enjoy being a part of the Steemit Community 128522; Ive listed these reasons below, but I also elaborate on them within the DTube video included 1. I feel like my creativity comes alive whenever I share and contribute back into the Steemit Community! 2. I am able to share what I love while a...

#2 From Cracking Skulls to an Astrological Bitcoin Bull. -- by @broncnutz with a current reward of 215 SBD

Former NFL running back and legendary pot smoker Ricky Williams is now advising you to buy Bitcoin! Once a star at Texas University and after bouncIng around the league, the former Heisman Trophy winner now considers himself as an astrology expert . Now this is an area I have very little knowledge in but many humans have said for thousands of years that the future can be tapped into by stars and planet movements. For a man who used to hand out face ripping stiff arms on Sunday afternoons t...

#3 Python Tips Jupyter Notebooks -- by @themarkymark with a current reward of 184 SBD

This is probably my favorite tip to offer. If you havent heard of Jupyter Notebooks, this is going to be a huge game changer for you. Source While I only use Jupyter Notebooks with Python, I know it can be used with lots of languages and frameworks. I only have experience using it for Python and Machine Learning. Jupyter Notebooks is different than anything I have ever seen before, the closest thing I describe it to is an interactive shell with charting, visualization, interactive w...

#4 Black Mirror You need to watch this show -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 180 SBD

I was first presented this show by a British friend... which i suppose is suitable seeing as how it has almost entirely British writers. This show might be the best thing ever made into a TV show and have a run for the best thing behind Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. I dont expect you to know anything about this show because i knew nothing upon watching the first episode of the show either. I only watched it because i was bored. However, what came after was the same thing that ma...

#5 When to book your trip to North Carolina for Kite surfing in the ocean -- by @ourdailyboard with a current reward of 178 SBD

While the west coast of the USA may have a more consistent swell for surfing, I believe the east coast has a clear advantage when kite surfing the waves because the region has a more consistent wind. The North Carolina coast is a great place to plan your wave riding vacation, accessible areas for down winders and warmer relative to the west water temperatures. This article will discuss factors to consider when choosing the right time of year to visit. For the advanced rider t...

#6 Ideal Steem Rewards Curve? Live Witness Update 4 -- by @jerrybanfield with a current reward of 138 SBD

How do we empower each of us to have a fair chance at earning a part of the new Steem and SBD created each day? Which rewards curve gives the ideal combination of giving each author a chance to earn while helping the most valuable contributions earn the most? When we vote for posts we love, how do we choose which posts rise to the top of the trending pages on steemit.com? Where are the opportunities to game the system based on each reward curve? Will you join us for a discussion about ...

#7 Steemit OpenMic Week 84 The Burn Ive Learned to Love original -- by @lillywilton with a current reward of 131 SBD

First of all, THANK YOU to the amazing openmicmusic community here on Steemit for the warm welcome. Your talents are second to only your kindness and overall badassery. My entry for the Open Mic Contest Week 84 is a little acoustic piece called The Burn Ive Learned to Love. Thank you for listening 3 classpullleft LYRICS Let them do what they do, Those who live above the ground. You and I need the roots. And oh, what a lovely well we found. Oh, what a lovely well we found. Im...

#8 After 4 years, my iPhone 6 gets a fresh battery How to Battery replacement -- by @jlsplatts with a current reward of 123 SBD

People can say what they want but this iPhone 6 has been through hell. I bought it around OctNov of 2014 a few months after it was released in the USA. Since day one this phone has seen continual use and abuse. Sitting in the side pocket of my work jeans everyday!! As my pockets get filled with dirt from being in the ditch installing underground electric cables, so does the phone. When Im working in the rain and mud, so does this phone. Being in a pocket next to my knee, it gets smacked by ...

#9 Bits and Pieces Decentralized Technology is Key -- by @htooms with a current reward of 111 SBD

Everything you will ever need to know about The Blockchain you keep hearing about. Did you know that it is all on the blockchain already? I keep hearing so many companies talking about how they are planning to put it on the blockchain. Blockchain is not new or different. Blockchain is not innovative or exciting. The Blockchain without context is vague and ambiguous at best. classpullleft altThe Blockchain border0 Lets compare the ever annoying undifinded the blockchain with a c...

#10 A Mute Swan Posing For The Camera -- by @cherryblossom-sa with a current reward of 108 SBD

Swans are the largest of the Anatidae waterfowl family. There are six swan species, the Black swans completely black are native to Australia and the black necked swans white body and a black neck are from South America. The swan on this photo is a Mute swan because it has a lump at the base of its bill on the upper mandible which only the blacknecked and mute swans have. A male swan is called a cob, the female a pen and the baby a cygnet. A group of swans is called a bevy or a wedge i...

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