Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 3756 SBD and 14911 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 At the Mountain God Hall in Wun Ju Sa temple -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 61 SBD

It was said that all temple building were destroyed. When and How the temple was destroyed seemed to be unknown yet. So all buildings in the temple were rebuilt in recent time. It was reported that original temple place was located at the entrance place. Now the original area was changed into the farmland, so the temple had to be built close to the mountain. Among those boilings, what catch my eye was a small and simple mountain god hall in the corner of the temple. Precisely speaking,...

#2 Introduction and Drills -- by @headcoach with a current reward of 54 SBD

Hi Guys I am Leon, Andre Grays Headcoach. I have been working closely with Andre on the next set of drills for you all and wanted to post an update. Due to high demand in his own training we are sorry we havent been able to get this to you any sooner. Andre sends his very important message of how he is exceptionally proud and overwhelmed of your responses so far. Keep your eyes peeled as I will be uploading the next set of drills this week. Well done for posting your first set o...

#3 Part 8 Ethereum Testing Async Tests, Refactoring And Performance Vs. Cleaner Code PT 8 -- by @igormuba with a current reward of 41 SBD

3 refactoring techniques for async tests Applying async tests to Truffle The performance hit of the cleaner async code Internet connection. Code editor. Browser. Intermediary. On the previous tutorial you were introduced to asynchronous tests for Ethereum contracts using JavaScript. The essence of asynchronous functions in JavaScript is all about making your code wait for things to happen. For example, if you are testing an Ethereal transfer, the balance wont be immediately updat...

#4 Captured By The Indians A True Story Of Courage And Perseverance -- by @janton with a current reward of 38 SBD

Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas! As many of you know, Im a big fan of history, especially about the American Wild West and the settling of the frontier. I have to put the word settling in quotes because of course it was already occupied by indigenous peoples and SETTLED well enough in their eyes. This country had been occupied by Indians for thousands of years and suddenly the white man shows up and thinks he discovered a new land! lol. I apologize, Im ...

#5 Announcing new share options for your fights, gang bosses kicking players and some help with the airdrop -- by @drugwars with a current reward of 31 SBD

Busy, busy, busy little bees we are. How does that old saying go? No rest for the weary? When you check that idiom out, you will find out how its meaning is that a person must continue to toil or work regardless of how exhausted he or she is and that is exactly what we have been doing. Why? Because we can. Because we want to. Because that is our mission. Since some of you have been experiencing issues with the airdrop, we will address that and show you how those issues can be resolved...

#6 steemdesktop new layout and account history of the last 24h is shown -- by @holger80 with a current reward of 30 SBD

steemdesktop is a new Qt5 python app that allows it to check the current state of an steem account. Qt designer is used to layout the application Im using now Qt designer to layout all the widget for Mainwindow. The ui file can then be converted into a py file by pyuic5 uimainwindow.ui o mainpythonuimainwin dow.py This py file is then included and added to the main window by from uimainwindow import UiMainWindow and class MainWindowQMainWindow, UiMainWindow def initself ...

#7 Fortune 500 Company Accepts Bitcoin Cash, Local.bitcoin.com is coming and more Bitcoin Cash news -- by @rogerkver with a current reward of 29 SBD

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#8 Perfect French Toast -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 28 SBD

Theres something so special about French toast, despite the fact that it is crafted out of the most ordinary ingredients. Maybe its the decadent luxury of making a meal out of something covered in sweet maple syrup. French toast is not just for lazy Sunday morning, we eat this breakfast staple for dinner often enough where it has lost its label as a breakfast food. There are two tricks to making your French toast superb Firstly, use highquality bread, and consider breaking away from the p...

#9 Animal Kingdom Netflix series If Point Break was more unrealistic and a series it would be this -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 27 SBD

I was quite excited when i stumbled upon this series on Netflix as it looked interesting. It follows the Cody family that commits crimes while also living a hardcore lifestyle of extreme sports and tons of boozing and sexytime with really attractive ladies. As great as that sounds, the show is actually pretty dumb. source Take a bunch of dudes who I presume are thought of as attractive and combine them with a very strangely, overly affectionate mother who acts as a matriarch of sorts an...

#10 Grand Canyon Chiang Mai A wonderful day out for 3 bucks -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 27 SBD

I randomly encountered this place while doing a Hash House Harriers run, we were doing a trek right beside it and as we peered over the fence I was like holy crap! What is that? source This manmade hole in the ground I dont know how or why is filled with springfed clean water and is surrounded by a bunch of extremesport activities such as ziplines and my personal favorite simply jumping off the side. source They have loads of food and drinks and if you want to get wasted, nobo...

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