Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 10 SBD and 831 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 CORONAVIRUS IN ABIA STATE -- by @cherylsonty with a current reward of 10 SBD

a CORONAVIRUS IN ABIA STATE on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr Hi friends this is a contest by invisusmundi,you can check his blog for link to participate. First of all I will start with a very brief introduction about myself. WHO AM I? My name is Cheryl am a mother of two,a civil servant and a business woman,I hail from Abia state, Nigeria. Actually I put to bed on 29th December,so I have been on my maternity leave since then. CORONAVIRUS IN MY AREA Here in Abia state we hav...

#2 Conspiracy Theories... Biblical Scriptures... Coronavirus Concerns... Lets All Smile with some Cute Cat, Kitten Video Fun... -- by @jeronimorubio with a current reward of 6 SBD

a Conspiracy Theories... Biblical Scriptures... Coronavirus Concerns... Lets All Smile with some Cute Cat, Kitten Video Fun... cats, cute cat, pet, cat, animal, photography, photo, art dsound is One Place to Get Music for your Videos but, Ask Permission First Free Stock Music is Another Great Website for this as Well Music on this Video is Rift Music... dtube Video Site Youtube No Censorship vimmtv Live Streaming Platform Twitch No Censorship dsound Podcast Music Site ...

#3 The fight between a .02 vs. 03 market share -- by @skramatters with a current reward of 5 SBD

This drama is fantastic ! Its like if Ooreos and Orreos had a death match to seize control of the biscuit eating sector of a village somewhere in a jungle that has a 711 and that local store.. Honestly, financially speaking within the borders of this blockchain war how many lives have been impacted? The typical user was already not able to buy bread from their earnings so getting involved or having an opinion is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the preschool petulance being exhi...

#4 I Wanted The Lockdown To Get Extended But I Wanted It To Get Lifted In The Other Hand -- by @cryptopie with a current reward of 5 SBD

The corona virus is very difficult to control it seems but the lockdown is a crucial and necessary thing to consider especially its extension so that the spread of the infections could slow down for the government health official to get more time in handling the influx of the cases. But I wanted it to get lifted too because of course life would somewhat return to normal because it is hard for me particularly to cope with the restrictions especially if my necessities are not fulfilled as ...

#5 After 10,000 Years Of Waiting My Online Order Will Finally Get Delivered -- by @cryptopie with a current reward of 5 SBD

Today after many times of checking to see if there are any progress about my online purchase of my dearly needed vitamin C for myself and my parents, I am surprised that my stuff will get delivered to my doorstep soon. The thing is that I am not so sure if it will arrive in my home tomorrow, the next day, or after this lockdown. But at least I am glad to know that my online order of vitamin C is moving and that I will be saved by the bell because I already had a tolerance for vitamin C in...

#6 I Am Still Not Sure If I Would Receive The Government Money Grant That They Told Us We Would Receive -- by @cryptopie with a current reward of 5 SBD

The president of the Philippines had recently announced that I in particular, a person with disability PWD as well as my parents because they are already both a senior citizen here in my country will receive money grant from what they call a Social Amelioration Program. It is an aid for us because of the lockdown situation here in my country where resources now are scant, we cannot buy freely the things that we need like even if you order online. Only the essential goods and services ar...

#7 Education Community -- by @steemiteducation with a current reward of 4 SBD

There are over 60 million teachers and 750 million students in the world today. We need to bring them to the Steem Blockchain. Source Steemiteducations goal is to empower educators to empower their students and to help provide an education to anyone with a desire to learn regardless of geographic location or economic status. Our dreams are huge. Some day, we plan to be able to Offer content courses Develop educational technology and apps Share lesson plans Provide howto and tutor...

#8 Gears 5 -- by @liberosist with a current reward of 4 SBD

The Gears of War franchise has always been rather idiosyncratic. The male characters have rather questionable body proportions, you know? It all seems like an overthetop, gory, trashy Bmovie. Yet, the games themselves aspire to be more heartfelt dramas about friendship and connection, and thoughtful third person shooting. Make no mistake, the first Gears of War can largely be credited with popularizing the third person shooter genre. The series has evolved, over the years. With Gears 5, it t...

#9 Sweet and sour chicken or chili chicken is my all time favorite. You can eat them ... -- by @priyanarc with a current reward of 3 SBD

... however, you like it. This was my lunch, rice, and sweetsour chicken, quarantinefood. Well, I dont know a lot of cooking, I have some basic ideas and I just know how to cook easy food, thats it. Moreover, I am very lazy when it comes to cooking. It took me 30 minutes almost to prepare everything and cook. It tastes so good because its homemade sweet sour chicken. I didnt have too many ingredients so I managed myself and balance what I had in handy. Thats all... The full recipe...

#10 Morning I was looking into my phone and was thinking that without this phone, how ... -- by @priyanarc with a current reward of 3 SBD

... my life gonna look like... Well, currently my phone is everything, without phone life seems impossible. But there was a timeline where people didnt have any cell phone, how they have done their work, how they managed their life without technology?? Well, technology made our life easy but that doesnt mean we cant lead our life without that. Maybe we have to do everything physically if there is no technology... Kinda fascinating isnt it thinking about the old days When I was not able to...

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