Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 1035 SBD and 11761 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 Coingecko Task Request Public Websocket API Connections for Poloniex -- by @utopian.tasks with a current reward of 93 SBD

Utopian.io is running this task request on behalf of CoinGecko.com Cryptoexchange is a rubygem that allows Ruby developers to interact with over 240 cryptocurrency exchange market data APIs in a single library. This rubygem is used to power CoinGecko. It is open source under the terms of the MIT License. For the existing HTTP API, this rubygem has established a pretty good abstraction which allows developers to easily contribute new exchanges. The websocket API feature, however, is a ...

#2 STEEM AND TRON PARTNERSHIP? NED SCOTT AND JUSTIN SUN IN TALKS? -- by @stackin with a current reward of 50 SBD

Whats Up STACKERS! There were some interesting comments between Ned Scott Steem and Justin Sun Tron posted on Twitter Today. It sure did raise some eyebrows! As you guys know, Justin Sun is the founder of Tron and toted as one of the most active guys on Social Media in the crypto space. Justin Sun posted the following message on his Twitter Account Name The Best Decentralized Community Platform. It had a great response. You can check out the post below Well you know what happen...

#3 A post about my thoughts on recent times -- by @acidyo with a current reward of 38 SBD

Hey institutional investors, we got these cheap penny stocks here where 90 of the people dont know what they are holding while the 1 is cleaning them out from bottom to top and back over and over because this halvening thing happens once every 4 years and you know what? dont worry about it just use your endless fiat and place those shorts to get them all to sell, the volumes are quite low now anyway since the institutions are waiting for Bakkt and Fidelity to buy these up more safely. I...

#4 New Guidelines Released By Nintendo Changes How Content Creators Get Paid! -- by @ascorphat with a current reward of 33 SBD

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is being released on December 7 and Nintendo released new guidelines just in time for content creators to possibly increase the size of their potential audiences and their income from livestreaming their game play. This is a HUGE announcement! Because, up until now, Nintendo has strictly monitored content streaming and screenshots of game play for copyright infringement. Money from ads within content that contained Nintendocopyrighted content went straight to N...

#5 Dim Sum at 1 Rated Zagat place in all of NYC -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 28 SBD

Dim Sum is extremely popular where I live in Thailand because of the Chinese heritage of many of the Thai people there. This is normally a morning experience and it costs next to nothing. I mean seriously; if you can spend more than 10 at a dim sum place in Thailand you are either being ripped off or you are somewhere superfancy. So when I looked at the menu at Red Farm on the upper west side of Manhattan, I was really expecting magic. class pullright I dont know much about Zagat as ...

#6 Artomat -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 28 SBD

I wanted to share with the world this nifty little contraption we found in Santa Fe. We found this particular Artomat at Meow Wolf, but there are hundreds of these scattered across the U.S. Each Artomat is a retired cigarette machine, restored to surpass its former glory. The particular Artomat that we encountered was restored to a vivid orange, fixed with a Dia De Los Muertos skull and roses. If you are wondering what in the world these machines do, they dispense original pieces of ...

#7 Pomegranate Scones with Orange Glaze -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 28 SBD

A festive, scrumptious treat, both tangy and sweet but not overwhelmingly so, this orange and pomegranate scones recipe is one of my favorites. The pomegranate and the citrusy orange come together to produce a bright, flavorful pastry that is great for breakfast or dessert. Dont be intimidated by having to cut the butter in, it is easier than it seems as long as you cut the pieces small enough and the butter is fairly cold. As for the pomegranate seeds, or arils, you can purchase them al...

#8 Muskox -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 27 SBD

When fall comes to the Canadian arctic, the caribou begin to head south to the edges of the open tundra, where the trees can provide food and shelter during the long winter ahead. Not the muskox though; these shaggy IceAge survivors head in the opposite direction to lands that are inhospitable to most other animals. The herds saunter northwards, into the barren mountains where bittercold winds howl and blow away the snow, keeping the frozen ground clear. At Cape Morris Jesup, Greenlands ...

#9 Muskox Part 2 -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 27 SBD

At the first sign of their only typical predator, the arctic wolf, muskoxen will release a powerful scent from glands just below the eye, which seems to change the animals demeanor from normal docility into aggressive and agile defenders. Forming a protective square around the women and children, the males charge the intruders, goring and trampling with their long, sharp horns, and powerful hooves. If a wolf manages to grab one, he will buck and leap in the air, attempting to crush the attac...

#10 Ball Tailed Cat Fearsome Critter -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 27 SBD

Similar to other fearsome critters for its catlike appearance, the ball tailed cat is alleged to be precisely as its name suggests. Said to be near identical to a mountain lion, with one defining difference a large ball like protuberance on its tail. The ball is a solid mass, which this mythological creature uses to attack its prey. There are a few variations on this figure of American folklore, both still cat creatures with ball tipped tails. One, the silver cat, would drum its tail again...

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