Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 983 SBD and 20386 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 Steemhunt has a great initiative -- by @cryptoandcoffee with a current reward of 33 SBD

Yesterday steemhunt announced that all new accounts registering going through their interface will receive 15 SP delegation for one month. This is huge for a new account and being able to vote and comment from day one is crucial. The 15 SP will allow the new account to make around 4 comments per day. Most likely that will be on Steemhunt until they grow and start to investigate what else is around. The Dapps on Steem are crucial to its growth as it is easier to understand a Dapp than it...

#2 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir The Globes Part 595 -- by @velimir with a current reward of 22 SBD

a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! For good, inspirational re...

#3 Original Art Photography Series by velimir 557 Stick em Up -- by @velimir with a current reward of 20 SBD

a titlesource ur.com What is this? Ah, yes, a fighter jet stuck on a pole. This is where all of them should be. D Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! I s...

#4 Dont think I will get a motorbike in Chiang Mai -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

I have always had a motorbike in Thailand. It is the preferred method of transport because it is super easy to park almost anywhere and consumes very little in the way of fuel. They are also quite inexpensive to rent and if you know where to look and understand the way the laws of ownership function, they are quite easy to buy and then sell on when you leave. That being said, just as I indicated in the title, I can see very little reason for me to bother having one up here in Chiang Mai...

#5 Miguels Mexican Restaurant Chiang Mai its a winner! -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

I might be a bit biased because I am pretty sure that Mexican food and more specifically, TexMex food, is likely my favorite on the planet. I was delighted to find out that my new city has eleven restaurants that specialize in Mexican food and this was the first one I have gone to. I will go to them all. They have the full spectrum of TexMex offerings including burritos, tacos hard and soft, quesadillas, enchiladas, fajitas that come out on a hot skillet, guacamole, and of course nach...

#6 The Corner Restaurant Chiang Mai a different one! standard breakfast but friendly as can be. -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD

So this morning my breakfast place in the quiet street that I was raving about before wasnt open for some reason, perhaps they close every Saturday i never bothered to look. This necessitated finding somewhere else to eat so i just walked a bit. This place is located on the exact same side of the street as a horrible restaurant which unfortunately shares the same name as them. It makes me wonder who had the name first. If I had to guess I would imagine that the restaurant on the o...

#7 Death and Rebirth of Castles -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 19 SBD

Most of Japan was united under the Shogun by the early 1600s, making the daimyos and their fortified castles increasingly irrelevant. Once abandoned, these castles gradually fell into disrepair. With the rise of more powerful monarchs in Europe, the old feudal system and the need for castes waned as well. From the ultimate military defensive technology of the 1200s, they had grown obsolete. Not only did the strength and numbers of large standing armies make it near impossible to resist a sie...

#8 The Esteem Series The New Esteem Mobile Episode 4 -- by @curtwriter with a current reward of 19 SBD

It seems like quite a decade since I last made a post via the utopian.io tag. Infact, it has so far been a month past to be precise. Quite a lot has happened in my absence which was as a result of work related issues. I can see my colleagues in this area like harryheightz, igormuba and Princekelly pushing forward without giving up despite the low price of Steem. Kudos to everyone, the moderators and community managers as well. Yes, I have been absent from writing, but I have within the p...

#9 San Felipe Winery Sweet Red -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 19 SBD

I have to give a shout out to this wine because a. Its local b. Its probably the best wine Ive ever purchased for only seven bucks. The San Felipe Winery only makes six different types of wine, and by limiting the varieties, they make sure that their offerings are high quality. The one I had the pleasure of trying was their Sweet Table Red. Im not usually a big fan of sweet wines although I enjoy the occasional moscato mimosa. I prefer my red wines to be a bit more dry than most sweet ...

#10 Altamahaha North American Folklore -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 19 SBD

It seems that many legendary monsters tend to be sea monsters. As we fear the unknown depths of dark waters, our imagination can spark the tales of monsters. Altamahaha is a legendary creature that plays a part in the folklore of the Southern U.S. state Georgia. Named after the river in which it is said to inhabit, Altamahaha is also affectionately known as Altie. altFileAltamahaha.jpg Altamahaha is said to have a body similar to a sturgeon, but much, much larger. The coloring of this ...

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