Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 27404 SBD and 3109 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 Do inactive account votes for witnesses affect the witness ranks? -- by @abh12345 with a current reward of 247 SBD

This is an analysis to try to determine if dead or inactive Ill use inactive from this point forward accounts have any impact on the witness positions. Background Assumptions Criteria used Results Overview of results Reordering the top 20 Inactivity grouped by witness standings Summary Scripts used in the production of this report There have been a number of discussions recently regarding inactive accounts that have votes cast for witnesses. The basic premise is that in ord...

#2 Welcome clove71 to the team! -- by @steemmonsters with a current reward of 231 SBD

Chris Love aka clove71 is a mother of 3 from Northern Virginia USA, and works as a Project ManagerPhotographer for Evolved Image, a design and digital marketing firm out of Richmond VA. She is also a home health aid to her son. Chris learned about Steemit and Crypto through her oldest son, cushcoast, and she actually first bought 80 worth of Bitcoin in 2012, but she didnt keep it long. The next time she would buy crypto would be in 2017 when she joined Steemit. She learned a lot about cry...

#3 Steem Monsters mini updates -- by @steemmonsters with a current reward of 222 SBD

So, Steem Monsters is still in Alpha. This is a state of improvement and growth as we figure out the best plan of action to make this game better. Changes will be happening along the way and we will always keep you updated. Bonus packs are now available through the presale! 100 packs 110 packs! We started with 30 cards in each Starter Pack as a bonus thank you for early adopters of Steem Monsters. As we get closer to the official launch, we are adjusting to a more propo...

#4 Steem Monsters News Updates from the the BattleTeam Guild! -- by @battleteam with a current reward of 158 SBD

Hello all of you Monsters! Steem Monsters is growing so rapidly! Guilds are starting to form, players are leveling up rapidly and before you know it battles will be here upon us! What an exciting time it is! Fyrstikkens Guild Battle Team is happy to bring to you updated information. !bt1 672px, 25fps.gif In the Monster News today is a new product that lets you see others cards! created by emrebeyler and is a great service to use! Average Prices per Trading Room channel on Steem Monste...

#5 Harvest Cedar Mantels -- by @mericanhomestead with a current reward of 155 SBD

A number of cedar beams that were cut months ago are now dried from our solar kiln and ready to be made into products. One of the products we have wanted to manufacture here on the homestead has been cedar mantels for fireplaces. Our goal is to make a number of these and take orders for custom sizes on a future website that is being built right now. Adding a bit of rustic feel to a home is achieved by installing a red cedar mantel. These cedar beams are harvested and milled on our hom...

#6 You better shut your mouth dawg! -- by @broncnutz with a current reward of 147 SBD

This is what happenes when you got a little white dog that likes to talk shit! Casey, a saltwater croc has been barked at, terrorized, mocked and punked for an entire decade by this dog Pippa and he finally got that little loud mouth yapper back today.....checkmate bieotch! Yes thats the dog in his mouth and we will no longer be hearing from Pippa acting like a telephone tough guy anymore! At Goat Island Lodge, south of Darwin in the middle of the crocodileinfested Adelaide River, guests h...

#7 Putin Is On To The Deep State, Calls Out Soros Episode 1585b -- by @x22report with a current reward of 137 SBD

The deep state is in trouble, McCabe is now asking for immunity, which means he will turn on Comey, Comey is in trouble according the IG report which has not been released. Obama is trouble because he allowed Iran to access the banking system without informing congress which went against the sanctions placed on Iran. Illegal border crossing arrests are up. Putin points the finger at Soros and exposes him for who he really is. He is part of the deep state which pushes regime change around the...

#8 So Whose Right of Way Would That Be Then? -- by @ezzy with a current reward of 101 SBD

 Just utter madness is what it is. So, I took this photo earlier on please forgive the fallen roof tile just below of these two cars. Theyve been stuck like this for the last half an hour and both refusing to give way to each other. I wasnt able to capture one of the drivers actually reading the newspaper whilst waiting for the other to back down. This is crazy! Ive was watching this abhorrent spectacle for around fifteen minutes until a much larger ...

#9 Dusky Sun and Its Reflection -- by @abduhawab with a current reward of 100 SBD

Still dealing with the dusky sun, that I captured couple days ago. I managed to take sun at dusk along with its light as good as possible, but still I got to try harder to look better. On this lovely occasion, I dearly want to show you some of photos of dusky sun light and its reflection that sparks over the water. These photos were found somewhere in Lhokseumawe Reservoir, as it is easy spot to find the sun at dusky time, or where the sun is about to set. Nikon D7000ISO 1001100 detik. f2...

#10 Top 10 star players for the World Cup Part 1 of 2 -- by @worldcup-russia with a current reward of 94 SBD

Every four years theres a group of players that nobody wants to miss out on their performance and this world cup is no exception. The world cup is the best place to showcase a players abilities, whether it is with the intention of becoming famous, to get a better contract with their current team, to catch the headhunters attention or just to rise their price in the market, but this event is definitely the best chance for a player to stand out among the crowd. Source One thing is to be th...

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