Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 564 SBD and 20430 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 Minecolonies Some GUI abstractions -- by @raycoms with a current reward of 82 SBD

Hi everyone, as you guys now, abstracting and refactoring things is one of my big programming hobbies and while setting up some new features I noticed that I could save a whole lot of code if I would break this task down into abstracting the existing code and then in the next step using this for the new GUI. In this first post, I will head into the abstraction work and the new features will be explained in the following post. What is it about Now, for quite a while already we had GUIs d...

#2 Aligning a NonFungible Future Interview with Urban Osvald of 0xcert -- by @creativecrypto with a current reward of 38 SBD

httpsi1.wp.comthecreativecrypto.comwpcontentuploads2019010xcertnonfungible.png?fit7802C390amp;ssl1 alt classwpimage4548Exactly a year ago, only one or two nonfungible projects were dominating the discussions of g classgr gr7 gralert grgramm grinlinecards grrunanim Grammar onlyins replaceWithoutSep id7 datagrid7blockchain creativity. In the twelve months since, weve gone from flushwithkitties to an expansive ecosystem of nonfungible tokens NFTs that have spawned scores of crypto collectibles...

#3 The Monument and Stone things in Ssang Gye Sa Temple -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 38 SBD

In this posting, Id like to introduce the monument for a great monk and the some stone thing near the monument. As passing through 4 Heaven Kings gate, there was the monument in the center of the ground which was made at 887 AD for the memory of a great monk Jin Gam died in 885 AD. The writer of the this monument was the famous scholar in Korean history. There is a legend that the scholar Choi Chee Won became a legendary hermit. The head part was carved after the shape of the dragon ...

#4 They Should Have Killed Bitcoin Ten Years Ago -- by @theycallmedan with a current reward of 27 SBD

a They should have killed Bitcoin ten years ago. Be confident enough to fail, publically. Now you want to sell? When its 95 down? You should have sold a long time ago. you dont quit now you buidl You didnt sell because you saw value greater then it was now. Disrespecting yourself with constant secondguessing. Been through the whole bear market, emotional on every up and every down. They see me refreshed like wtf investing is about stamina. Dont let day traders change your mind dont make ...

#5 Orangeberry Cake -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 25 SBD

Looking for a tangy and sweet cake recipe that blends the awesome flavors of fresh citrusy orange with tart cranberries? The late addition of egg whites into the batter keeps the cake nice and fluffy, and the orange zest sprinkled throughout the batter ensures a tasty bit of orange flavor in every bite. Ingredients 1 cup sugar cup light brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon orange zest, finely grated 2 cup flour teaspoon salt cup unsalted butter teaspoon bakin...

#6 English Breakfast success in Krabi -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD

So I am leaving Krabi, likely permanently in the next month I have been here over a decade. Due to where I lived once in the jungle and another time in a Muslim part of town I havent ever found a great English Breakfast anywhere other than the restaurant that years ago I was the owner of. I made it my goal to find one before I left and I think I may have succeeded. You might recall an epic failure that I wrote about before and I actually received some criticism about how I should try t...

#7 HEY YOU GUYS!!! Community Forum Today, 8pm11pm UTC On MSP Waves In 1 Hour Stop Complaining And Come Be A Part Of The Solution -- by @llfarms with a current reward of 24 SBD

Time to stop complaining on the sidelines and instead be a part of the solution, yep.. I said it. Thats right, after a bit of a holiday break the forums are back on! Today Thursday at 8pm UTC over at The PAL Network On Discord. Pennsif will be running the 3rd installment of his SOS forums and this one is all about dAapps, Apps and Development. He has quite the line up scheduled and you can find more about it Here. Edited To Include His Brand New Post crypto.talk developer of Partiko di...

#8 US Capture Of Guam -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 24 SBD

In the SpanishAmerican War of 1898, the bulk of the fighting occured Cuba and the Philippines. However, the Spanish territory of Guam was quite remote, only getting mail and news about once a month. The war caused mail to arrive late to the island, which was not uncommon anyway, resulting in the Governor and people of Guam being completely unaware that were at war. USS Charleston at the harbor of Agana, Guam. The Americans sent a boat to take Guam. As the ship entered the harbour, they f...

#9 Orange Buttercream -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 23 SBD

Try this on a delicious orangeberry cake or you cant beat spreading it across a simple chocolate cake for the amazing combination of chocolate and orange. Swipe it on sugar cookies or shortbread. The possibilities are endless, but I do recommend finishing this fantastic buttercream off with a sprinkle of orange zest. Ingredients cup unsalted butter, room temperature 5 tablespoons orange juice 34 cups confectioners sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon finely grated orange z...

#10 You Netflix show this looks like a real winner -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 23 SBD

I originally ignored this show because I dont like to be lead down a path and Netflix themselves kept pushing this one on me. I didnt even watch the trailer because I am stubborn like that. classpullright It wasnt until a friend of mine posted on some other site that this show is incredible that I took her word for it and plugged it in my list. I thought that this would reveal a couple of things. 1. If Netflix is attempting to force bad content on me the way Youtube does 2. If m...

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