Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 2763 SBD and 13423 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 YeongsanJeon Hall in Tondosa Temple, Korea -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 78 SBD

There were 3 very meaningful halls before the final entrance gate in this temple In this posting, I d like to introduce the one of those halls. The name of this hall was YoengsanJeon which had been built in the memory of one of the most important teaching of Buddha. This teaching, the Lotus Sutra, is the most important Bible in Buddhism of North East Asian Countries. The name of this temple, Tongdosa, has the meaning that the place where the Lotus Sutra was taught and this temple could b...

#2 Curie Author Showcase September 12th, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 64 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...

#3 Interviewing topnotch physicists at the SteemSTEM Utopian.io Meetup -- by @steemstem with a current reward of 58 SBD

The SteemSTEM Utopian.io MeetUp is almost here! Slightly more than one week is left on the calendar and well finally meet each other in the beautiful city of Florence. Before or actually during this exciting event we will publish some exclusive interviews with real researchers and engineers working at the Virgo Experiment. br The two scientists who agreed to be contacted are Giovanni Losurdo and Alessio Rocchi. classpullleft Giovanni Losurdo was the project leader ...

#4 Opportunity Lies at 30 Cents -- by @ezzy with a current reward of 41 SBD

Wanna fast track your Steemit account to acquiring Dolphin status? Or more, dare I say? Well, chances are that this may be the case rather soonish. As they say Now is as good a time as any.... So, the price of Steem is tanking. Actually, that goes for the majority of alts at the moment. Bitcoin is still holding strong though, sitting at just above the 6000 mark. Damn, is that level one tough sonofabitch or what? And as to whether or not it breaks is yet to be seen. I think its safe to ...

#5 Pluto at a Glance -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 40 SBD

With a host of new articles proclaiming Plutos return to the planetary fold, lets look at some of the interesting features of the ninth planet. It is quite complex, geologically speaking, second only to Earth, with Pluto has methanesnow covered mountain peaks, dunes made of solid methane ice, and possibly even an underwater ocean. A combination of images from the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, with enhanced colors. NASAJHUAPLSwRI Pluto was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovere...

#6 Road to Steemfest 3 6 Funding my trip to Krakow -- by @abh12345 with a current reward of 38 SBD

The sixth installment in my roadtosteemfest series, and the brainchild of anomadsoul as he encourages Steem Fest 3 attendees, and those trying their hardest to get to there, to write about their journey along the way. If you missed the first five posts, you can catch up here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, if you wish. And now that you have totally not clicked any of the links above, lets begin... Only 2356 km to go... I really hope this post doesnt turn out like another sobstory effort, I feel Iv...

#7 Minnow Support Project seeks Witness Applicants -- by @minnowsupport with a current reward of 25 SBD

The Minnow Support Project is looking for witnesses to support. Wed like for you to apply if you would like to recieve a vote. The Minnow Support Project exists as a Witness project to spread the values of Peace, Abundance, and Liberty with a mission to help Steemit grow and to train and maintain minnows new members on the platform. A witness is two things a person or team of people and a server. The server constructs the Steem blockchain. All the information that you post, comment, write...

#8 Hiking the South West Coastal Path Hollywell Bay -- by @stickycj with a current reward of 25 SBD

a What a lovely September day in Newquay. So lovely we decide to take on a 12 mile hike to Hollywell Bay and back! This walk is a wonderfully erse set of paths that take you from Newquay, across the river Gannel, up onto Crantock Village and subsequently Crantock Beach and headland. After that we pass Pollyjoke Beach which you will have seen before on our previous vlogs. After Pollyjoke we follow the headland across some great pieces of farmland and clifftop until we arrive at Hollywell ...

#9 The Scattering Made This Silvershield Knight -- by @tristancarax with a current reward of 20 SBD

This is my entry into Steem Monsters Common Card Fantasy Story Contest! Week 14 I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing this adventure! Text for Card Safeguarding beliefs Takes the heaviest of swords. Beliefs I expunge. These last few months required all of Pranakisss energy being focused on rebuilding the farm and getting food planted so that him, his family, and the visitors who stayed on to help would not starve through the coming winter months. Things were now...

#10 Easy Way on How To Apply a Simple Eye Makeup Look With Your Fingers Apply Eyeshadow With Your Hand -- by @mvd with a current reward of 19 SBD

Are you still relying on your fingers for eye makeup application? In this makeup video Ill show you how to apply eyeshadow by using your fingers. Please enjoy! Click here to see my recent step by step photo makeup tutorials Social Instagram Facebook Twitter Youtube Download my eBook How to Apply Makeup Like the Pros Do Kindle Edition on Amazon Choose your country or region US AU MX IN UK DE FR BR ES IT NL JP CA Disclaimer The products recommended on this s...

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