Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 585 SBD and 18669 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 Introducing Steem, OracleD and Agfacademy to Young Footballers That Need Supports Earn for Playing Football With AGFACADEMY -- by @dfacademy with a current reward of 48 SBD

Greetings Good day everyone! How are you doing? I hope everyone is good? The reason why I called you guys to attention is that I want to introduce you to a platform where you can earn for playing football, before that I will tell you the underlying technologies. Its all about Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Blockchain and Cryptocurrency make this to be a possibility today. Blockchain is a decentralized public ledger where all transactions made are recorded. Due to different connotatio...

#2 Planning Program of Rumoh Agam in Q1 2019 -- by @rumoeh.agam with a current reward of 47 SBD

The year 2018 will soon be over. I am sure that everyone and an organization have programs that we will carry out in the future. To help start a program, at least we have to arrange several plans by looking at and analyzing the risks that will occur in doing a plan so that later it will be easy to measure the level of success even the failure rate. However, it needs to understand when a failure does not mean that a plan is not planned carefully. This is only a matter of how making failure ...

#3 The Three Gifts Blockchain and Crypto Need This Christmas -- by @mobymom with a current reward of 32 SBD

What will it take for the blockchains and the crypto market to achieve their potential? While there is little disagreement that we are heading into a 4th Industrial Revolution, lead by blockchain technology, what needs to happen to move things forward? Three things stand out that need to work together, much like three legs on a stool. Until these elements were present in both the PC Revolution and the dawn of the Internet, the same chaos, wild west anything goes conditions were present as w...

#4 What makes Steem a turnkey Blockchain for Dapps? -- by @aggroed with a current reward of 27 SBD

Community, zero fees, fast transactions, web based, its a functioning blockchain, no C blockchain dev required The heart of what makes building on Steem successful is the community. Theres thousands of people here. Theres 50k active daily accounts according to penguinpablo and his reports. And you can find them. It isnt just some random reddit page. Theres a whole app for sharing posts called Steemit and then there are the Discord and Telegram communities where all these folks live. ...

#5 Love Actually film not scared to say this is a favorite of mine -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 26 SBD

There arent a whole lot of romantic comedies in my repertoire of favorite films and to be fair a lot of this movie is not comedy its mostly just a touching story or collection of touching stories that are all told really well. source It also doesnt hurt t hat there are a ton of stars in this movie. There are so many infact, that the movie poster misses out of telling us about a lot of them. So if you dont know anything about Love Actually, it is a collection of non related stories, ...

#6 Bird Box film I was let down -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 26 SBD

I would have found about it eventually anyway but a friend of mine posted about this on FB and I was intrigued. I think Sandra Bullock is one of the best actresses alive today and I do enjoy horror. Unfortunately this film was a little dumb and I suppose I shouldnt be surprised. source Dont worry, this is going to be spoilerfree and if you like thrillers or i guess this is horror in a way it might be worth seeing pun intended oh wait, you dont know about that yet. The plot is tha...

#7 Cervantes Restaurant and Cantina The Best New Mexican Cuisine -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 25 SBD

We had the pleasure of dining in our favorite New Mexican restaurant last night with a crowd of our loved ones. The company was great, and the food and setting was just as fantastic. Cervantes has the look of a Spanish Golden Age den, straight out of Don Quixote. The look of the restaurant is usually lively, with its crossed swords and Spanish murals. But with the impending holiday, it was on highfestivity and it appears the staff went all out. Almost every exposed ledge was covered in g...

#8 Castlevania netflix show loving it so far -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD

Ok, if you play videogames you are almost certainly at least somewhat familiar with the Castlevania franchise and particularly if you were around during when videogames because something that first entered the home not Atari, after that then you really really enjoyed Castelvania on some level. I for one really enjoyed them until the went 3d, then they kind of lost their identity and started making movies instead of games figuratively... I suppose it is only appropriate that they turned thi...

#9 Christmas Came Early... -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 24 SBD

My parents are in town for the holiday, and my mom has a penchant for going a little over the top when it comes to holiday celebration. So I was only mildly surprised that they brought all this with them But most welcome was the early Christmas gift I received this morning. As an avid coffee drinker and the parent of a two year old, I tend to drink a lot of coffee. And with guests in the house, my intake is doubled. It was far too late at night to go to the store when I realized the wo...

#10 The Wapaloosie Fearsome Critter -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 24 SBD

One of the cuter fearsome critters, the Wapaloosie is about the size and shape of a dachshund. Native to Northern America, the Wapaloosie is found in the forests between the Pacific coast and Idaho. The Wapaloosie is said to have rodent like features, with large mousy ears and a rat like tail. However, the strange creature has the feet and toes of a woodpecker, making it ideal for forests life. It has an appetite for fungus, eating brackets and conks that grow at every altitude of tree. T...

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