Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 37 SBD and 513 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 Weekly Report Country Representative Sri Lanka Steem Greeter Community Curator 07 Week 03 -- by @randulakoralage with a current reward of 22 SBD

Week 20200814 to 20200821 Country Sri Lanka Published Date 20200822 Last Week Report a Week 02 This section discuss the progress of the Sri Lankan community and how community engagement changed during the past week.During this week, 1 new member joined to steemit. She has completed up to two Achievements at the moment. The following chart shows the number of new members joined during the last seven weeks. New member per week All the newcomers are going through the New Comers communi...

#2 The Steemit Population, Statistics Impact On Steemit Blockchain -- by @oppongk with a current reward of 14 SBD

Hello Steemians, Steemit Team, content Creators Consumers, Investors and Trader. Its about Time we look into the Development of Steemit Blockchain in this Cyber World Space as its is Our valuable asset in this planet of Technology. As the Crypto Space expands and every segment seek to initiate transition at very fastest pace we the steemit Team needs to be on Our toes to bring more innovations for impact. The current ranked of Steem blockchain at the 40th position in terms of market capi...

#3 What does Just Swap exchange going live and JustSteem partnership mean to Steem holders? -- by @shortsegments with a current reward of 12 SBD

Source The steemitblog mentioned the SteemitJust partnership in their blog a few Steemitblogs ago and many on the Steem blockchain were excited! Many of us are excitedly waiting to learn more and there is great anticipation for the first post of justdefi to tell us more. MakerDao is the most successful credit debt facility on the Ethereum blockchain. While it may one day be eclipsed by its competition, right now its on top. JUST is a credit debt facility modeled after the MakerDao, ...

#4 Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, ... -- by @soldier with a current reward of 9 SBD

... not realizing that everyone has a different question paper Our thinking is characterized by dualism. Its either black or white. Shadow or light. We grew up following what we were taught in school, university and became a part of the modern slavery. Now is the time to break the pattern and start thinking in color! Get out of your shell and follow your dreams. We have two major advantages than the generations before us. The access to internet allows us to receive free knowledge from a...

#5 Some stock I own BMW -- by @alexvan with a current reward of 8 SBD

Hi, last week Ive started a new series with this post about the stocks I own. I have some stocks in portfolio, as Im buying them for a long term. Im selling some stocks where I see that the industry is in shake down and that there is a major risk of losing all of them. Today Im telling you another company I own a share into. Yes, I spelled it right, I own only one share. I had more, but sold them when Dieselgate hit. It was a company that was still climbing, when VW was in problems, bu...

#6 Keiser Report Summer Solutions Eliminating Single Points of Failure E1583 -- by @rt-international with a current reward of 7 SBD

a In this episode of Keiser Reports annual Summer Solutions series, Max and Stacy chat to Jameson Lopp of Keys.Casa about security and sovereignty in an age of the collapse of fiat and the rise of bitcoin where there are no bailouts or money printer go brrrrr. Buying bitcoin is only the first step on the journey from fiat, the next step is actually turning that into an asset you control yourself. Newcoiners have been arriving in droves to bitcoin due to the glaring systemic risks in fiat...

#7 btc stand on the 100MA of 4hr chart823 -- by @jhdklk853 with a current reward of 7 SBD

Bitcoin, which started at 11,529 yesterday 822 0000, UTC0, hit a low of 11,373, peaked at 11685, and closed at 11,675 822 2400, UTC0. Bitcoin continued to fall at the start of the day, dropping to 11373 in an hour, but rebounded without breaking the first support line of 11300, which was said yesterday, and rose to 11,681 at 2130. When it fell, it was unlikely that it would fall to under 11300 because the volume was small. Trading volume increased on the 4hour chart as it fell last Friday, ...

#8 Belarus turmoil Countrys opposition compares plight with Venezuelan scenario -- by @rt-international with a current reward of 6 SBD

a Many compare the Belarus uprising to others that have happened in recent decades, and one leading dissident is now citing the Venezuelan scenario in that context. In both cases, Western leaders didnt recognize the results of elections and threw their support behind the protests. And just as Venezuela now has two parliaments, things seem to be heading that way in Belarus, where an opposition coordination council has been formed. Subscribe to RT! RT LIVE Check out httprt.com Like ...

#9 Tonight, e... -- by @sampraise with a current reward of 5 SBD

Tonight, even though there is a queue to fill gas, the people who are waiting are calmer, it has also started to rain and that is enough for the drivers to be inside their vehicles. I had to check in the kitchen if the dishes and cups were not getting wet, since sometimes the rain is a lot and a leak appears due to the leaves that are on the roof. Take advantage of playing some games of Splinterlands, a game that was on the Steem blockchain and in which I invested Steem. its a sh...

#10 Today in History Boxing and Bombs -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 5 SBD

Today is the birthday of two things both of which involve violence. One of them lead to the popularization of one of my favorite sports and the other lead to 40,000 people getting killed. They both are pretty important even though obviously one of them shouldnt be celebrated. source Ever heard of Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri? No? Well neither have I but they were the fighters on what was almost certainly a very very small screen that was difficult to see and wasnt owned by really a...

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