Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 18364 SBD and 1412 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 Curie Author Showcase June 9th, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 221 SBD

In the spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following o...

#2 Top 12 promising young players for the World Cup 22 -- by @worldcup-russia with a current reward of 88 SBD

Throughout history, there has always been young and gifted young players with a specific skillset that makes them look as if they are destined to leave a mark. A lot of this promising players are left behind as years go by, some of them get blinded by money, to some of them fame gets the best of them, other cant just focus on their career or maybe the world of football is too big for them. Many young players went from promising to diappointing in a matter of months... sad stories where a ...

#3 A Vlog On 3 Easy Ways to Save Money for Traveling, Your Goals and Dreams, and for the Things You Love! -- by @lifetipsbysn with a current reward of 86 SBD

a Hi Steemit Community! In the past few years, I have been researching new ways to save more money for my future and for the things that I love to do in life! Now there are many things I love in life such as traveling, music, art, food who doesnt love some good food?, and so much more but for all of those things, there has to be some kind of investment of our time or money as they say, time is money!. There are multiple ways to set aside and save money and many times its simply findi...

#4 Switzerland One country, four languages, many dialects 5 minutes read -- by @lakesnmountains with a current reward of 79 SBD

Switzerland has four official languages, but one of them is not actually spoken, one is not actually written, and two of the four are split into dozens of dialects so erse that there is a considerable language barrier between some of them. DSchwiiz Eis Land, vier Sprache, vieli Dialkt Swiss German La Suisse Un pays, quatre langues, beaucoup de dialects French La Svizzera Un paese, quattro lenguas, molti dialecti Italian La Svizra In staid, quarter linguas, blers dialects RhaetoRomanic Swi...

#5 Lets talk about emotional sensitivity -- by @dedicatedguy with a current reward of 70 SBD

Everyone of us feel emotions, they are part of our lives and without emotions we would have a harder time bonding with each others and creating positive social relationships with the people we like. classpullright Even though it is natural to feel emotions, not everyone is capable of experiencing the same intensity, and there are people that are like a rock, never expressing anything on the outside but surely feeling something on the inside, and the same happens with others th...

#6 Anthony Bourdain, Dead At 61 Commited Suicide or Death By Suicide? -- by @shayne with a current reward of 64 SBD

Im not a fan of Anthony Bourdain. Not because I dont like him; simply because Ive never actually seen any of his work. Anthony Bourdain was a food and travel critic with a popular show called Parts Unknown on CNN. You can just ask my wife I watch a lot of foodrelated stuff on YouTube. The voice of Gordon Ramsay has been heard from my kitchen on many occasions. But Bourdains show I simply never got around to watching. Well, it was reported this morning that Bourdain killed himself at th...

#7 Steemhunt Development of ABV and introduction of Hunt Curation Score and Hunt Token Wallet -- by @jayplayco with a current reward of 64 SBD

Hi, jayplayco here! Now officially a moderator at Steemhunt and still an evangelist I am using Steemhunt on a daily base but now more moderating users for their hunts. For all reading the first time about Steemhunt, here isthe elevator pitch. Elevator pitch Steemhunt is a Steem based producthunt. And, some articles which will help the understanding about Steemhunt. What is Steemhunt and why should I care? ABVaccount based voting in development Update for Upvoting Review Comments Other ...

#8 Should Dtube become mainstream? Black Mirror Nosedive episode -- by @rutheh with a current reward of 64 SBD

a Ive joined the Black Mirror fans train a little late, but join it I did, and got the pleasure of binge watching 4 whole seasons in about two weeks. While each season includes a few episodes that were kind of meh, each one also includes a few episodes that really left an impression and got me thinking. The episode that I wanted to talk about in this post is episode 1 on season 3 called Nosee.; I wont get into details, because I dont want to give any spoilers, but the episode is set in a...

#9 What Would You Define as Having A Lot of Steempower? -- by @ezzy with a current reward of 63 SBD

Can there be a more subjective or isive question, in regards to Steem? As with most things in life, it all comes down to ones perception. The reason why Im tackling this topic is because Ive been asked my for thoughts on it quite a few times in the past and havent really alluded to a definite answer. And just to confirm, this post ultimately refers to the numerical amount in our wallets and not the dollar amount. So here, now, is a breakdown of my honest thoughts on this most grey of areas, ...

#10 OUR LAST WEEK IN ASIA CAT BA ISLAND, VIETNAM TRAVEL VIDEO! -- by @invisusmundi with a current reward of 63 SBD

a Rugged, craggy and jungleclad Cat Ba, the largest island in Halong Bay, has experienced a tourism surge in recent years. The central hub of Cat Ba Town is now framed by a chain of lowrise concrete hotels along its oncelovely bay, but the rest of the island is largely untouched and as wild as ever. It was one of our best decisions to spend our last week in Cat Ba island. Soon we will post an article step by step telling all the story what we did in those 3 weeks in Vietnam. Dont forget t...

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