Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 5 SBD and 413 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 SteemWomens Club Contes2 ENDED What are your expectations from the New Year? 90 Big Awards RESULTS -- by @steemwomensclub with a current reward of 32 SBD

Hello to everyone Today I will announce the winners of Contest 2 . I have also accepted submissions after the contest end time. You have created your posts with the steemwomensclub womensclubnewyear hashtag. I pay attention to the quality and originality of the content of the post while choosing the winners in the contest. Thanks to all participants. 1st Winner ngoenyi 50 upvote from steemcurator02 SteemWomens Club Community Contest 2 What are your expectations...

#2 The Diary Game 22122020 My Tuesday Activities -- by @oppongk with a current reward of 24 SBD

Greetings Steemit Community! I have been a little being confined indoors. This is to support my wife in doing household chores. No one is here to help and I must ensure that something like cooking, cleaning and washing utensils are done. So in the morning, I woke up early to clean my kitchen, wipe all dusty luvers and then heat water for hot tea. After serving all the family, I washed my bowls in the sink. I begin to prepare stew and some yam ampesi for lunch. The first was to...

#3 BetterlifeThe Diary Game 23122020 My Dedication for Growth of Steemit Pakistan -- by @rashid001 with a current reward of 23 SBD

Praise be to ALLAH. My beginning of the day is very beautiful because every morning I start my work with the dedication to move forward and the passion to do something for the development of the community. The first part of the day is based on the activities necessary to keep financial life going. So that my home system also runs. Because I think money is like a fuel for journey of life. Which helps us to reach the destination. and The real destination is to please Allah and to w...

#4 THE DIARY BETTER LIFE WITH STEEM 23122020 Making Great Fun With My Steemit Tshirt When Shopping -- by @oppongk with a current reward of 22 SBD

Today I decided to go out with my Stermit Tshirt when I went to Mampong to shop with my young boy, Darkwa Jude. In fact when Christmas approach we make a lot of spending. Not a long a go that I bought some sandals in Kumasi. I again bought materials to be sewed, and they are now with TailorSeamstress which would soon be furnish. I wouldnt want them to lack clothes sandals to wear so I want each of them having at least 2 each. The Girls, Adubea Wilfreda has had her clothes and sandal each 2....

#5 My Village In Ten Pics Khoksa December 23, 2020 -- by @eh-shohag with a current reward of 21 SBD

Hello..!! My Dear Friends, This is ehshohag from Bangladesh classphishy The 23th December, 2020 Wednesday Leonardo Donofrio Hawker He is a hawker by profession. He mainly sells brushes and bulbs. He also sells some other products. His daily income is about 35 steems approximately. Near Sujon cosmetics Drying Paddy Process Although the oldest method of drying paddy or traditional method is used in our village. However, when the wholesalers buy it, it is dried in a ...

#6 My Village in Ten PicsDhokrakole22122020 by smshagor -- by @sm-shagor with a current reward of 19 SBD

Hello..!! My Dear steemians, I am smshagor from Bangladesh Today I will discuss with you about the weekly market of our village market. In fact, weekly market means sitting in the market once a week. We have a weekly market every Wednesday in our village market. Here, various small businesses sit down to sell their products one day every week. I will talk about the different products in the weekly market and the vendors who come in the market and their way of life. 1 Yo...

#7 Betterlife The diary game 22th Dec 2020 Back at home -- by @rishabh99946 with a current reward of 18 SBD

So as yesterday after all the Celebration and travel, I have had really good sleep as I was all tired. Today in the morning i woke up at 8.30AM, I was feeling good then freshen up and then I went to have shower. I had tea and snacks in the breakfast As I been out for 2 days, I didnt shower so today I just had to shower, after that I had my breakfast and then I heard to my computer classes after 2 days, although I had already told my teacher that I wont be coming for next 2 days. As usu...

#8 The Diary Game Season 3 12232020 My Travel From Abuja to Lagos and My Holiday Day 3 -- by @gbenga with a current reward of 17 SBD

Hello everyone and welcome to another diary section of mine. Today is the day three of my holiday and I returned to lagos from Abuja. Unlike my first trip which was by air, going back was by land as all air tickets were sold out. I woke at 400AM to pick an Uber to the bus station. I got to lagos with God is Good Mottos GIGM, and the trip took about 16 hours which normally takes 45 minutes by flight. I got to the God is Good Motors Station at 530AM, booked my trip and waited for my Bus ...

#9 The Steemit Awards 2020 -- by @steemitblog with a current reward of 17 SBD

2020 has been a big year in the history of Steem. In February Steemit, Inc entered into a strategic partnership with the Tron Foundation. Since then Steemit has gone from strength to strength to consolidate its position as the leading crypto based social platform. This amazing progress over the past year could not have been achieved without the commitment and dedication from the ever growing Steem community. We would therefore like to recognize the contributions from so many hardworking ...

#10 THE DIARY GAME Tuesday 22122020 diary for Season 3 powered up 100 -- by @bright-obias with a current reward of 15 SBD

Hello diarists. Welcome to my diary for 22th of December, as you all know, Diary is all about your daily activities. With this effect, I will share with you here my daily activities. it was a wonderful day that was well spent. Read on to see how it all went. Starting the day with morning prayers and worship to God has been part of my daily routine. After that brief session, I went outside to feel the environment and the weather. The weather cool and promising. I took a picture of i...

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