Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 5143 SBD and 17443 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 Hurreeyy!!! Lagos City Steemit Promotion Was A Huge Success Promoting Steemit In Federal College Of Education Akoka Printed More 100 Copies Of Steemit Promotion Fliers And Signed Up A Newbie Via Online Plus Successfully Poweredup 110 Steem -- by @talktofaith with a current reward of 67 SBD

Hello promosteem.com and steemitboog, it is my pleasure to bring to you the outcome of the Lagos City Steemit Thursday Promotion for today. Todays steemit promotion was done by talktofaith, demzy and ammyy. Today we targeted Federal College Of Education Akoka, Lagos Nigeria. The below picture is talktofaith ready for steemit promotion in FCE Akoka, Lagos Nigeria. what3words And the below picture is the crew for todays steemit promotion in Lagos City Nigeria. demzy, ammyy and talk...

#2 Steemit Philippines Community Top 5 Posts Picks of the Day and Recommended Posts for the steemcurator01 Support 10142021 -- by @steemitphcurator with a current reward of 49 SBD

Another day, another set of selected members of our community as top 5 pics of the day, recommended for steemcurator01 support. Though it is not guaranteed for upvotes, were hoping and praying that all of the featured posts will be taken into consideration. We really thank God for this opportunity our community has received and we will do our best to do better for our members, our community, and the Steemit platform itself. A reminder to all our members to produce quality posts either...

#3 Join Ghana Tomorrow for PromoFriday Challenge Free Steem to Be Won -- by @nattybongo with a current reward of 43 SBD

Hello Guys, Friday is almost here and for Ghanaians it is a day for us to promote steem. Steem promotion is obviously an everyday thing however on this day we are calling upon all Ghanaian steemians to put themselves out there to tell others about the blockchain. The avenues with which one wishes to promote steem it entirely up to them. You are at liberty to use social media, you are at liberty to go out there with your friends to show steem to others, sign up others if they are inter...

#4 Weekly Promoters Report Ghana -- by @nattybongo with a current reward of 39 SBD

Greetings to steemit team and promosteem leadership, As incumbent on me as a promoter for PromosteemGhana I am here today to present my report from my country. This report would be covering Ghanaians activities in terms of steem promo and the respective powerups of members towards the growth of the ecosystem and self sustainability. This report would be covering the time from October 8th to October 14. Before i proceed i would like to use the opportunity to commend Ghanaians for an am...

#5 1015, Fri btc broke shortterm high and is heading towards 60k -- by @jhdklk853 with a current reward of 31 SBD

Yesterday1014 0000 2400, UTC0, bitcoin price recorded its starting as 57420, its lowest as 56783, its highest as 58592, its closing as 57377. Bitcoin rose weakly after Thursdays start, reaching a high at 0215, then declining, reaching a low at 1915, and then rebounding, ending with a final weak flat. Looking at the 4hour chart, btc got a weak correction after renewing a shortterm high at the beginning of the day, but it is positive to support the 56,500 level, which was at the top of the b...

#6 I Still Have Some Fluids In My Lungs But Dialysis Treatment To The Rescue -- by @cryptopie with a current reward of 15 SBD

I have this urge still to cough but not quite and the reason being that my lungs have extra fluids in them. It is not good because it means that I have an excessive amount of extra fluids that is enough to affect my lungs. Now what I should do? Again the solution was to target a lower body weight via the dialysis process i.e. I will tell my nurse the amount of water that they should draw out to target the level that will clear my lungs from being so waterlogged that it is just ...

#7 Communities of the Month Support Program Applications for November -- by @steemitblog with a current reward of 15 SBD

classpullright The Communities of the Month program for October is now well underway. For November we are going to take the program in a new direction. The emphasis for the program will still very much be about building community strength with a view to achieving increasing selfsufficiency, but this time we are adding a new element. You may have already seen mentions of Club5050 that we soft launched a couple of days ago. Club5050 is all about encouraging people to cash out less and p...

#8 Trading Cryptocurrencies Crypto Academy S4W6 Homework Post for reminiscence01 by swaylee -- by @swaylee with a current reward of 12 SBD

editted using canva Good day prestiged readers, I welcome you all to my week 6 assignment on the Steemit Crypto Academy. In this post I will be giving you an indepth look into the trading process especially with respect to types of trading with advantages and disadvantages and various kinds of orders in trading and the best part is that we are going to be practicing them. Lets have a look at the first question. As someone interested in trading cryptocurrencies, you would have ...

#9 The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger -- by @alwaysgrateful with a current reward of 10 SBD

We often think that we live in such a marvelous world and that all the options we have just are awesome blessings that make life so much better. But, sometimes you will experience that simplicity and a lack of choices will make life so much happier and easier to live. Do you know what I mean? Let me give you an example! Picture from Pixabay Sometimes when we travel with our kids, we end up staying at places without a working Internet connection. What is the result? The tablets and the ph...

#10 CRYPTO ACADEMY SEASON 3 BEGINNERS COURSEHOME WORK POST FOR TASK 6 Different types of Consensus Mechanisms -- by @akam-theresa with a current reward of 9 SBD

source class textjustify I greets you all in the community. I extend my innermost appreciation to professor sapwood for this lecture. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PoW PoS? ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES? WHICH ONE IS BETTER IN SCALING CAPACITY? EXAMPLES? In any given blockchain, blocks are related in a Chronological way so as not to allow existing transaction be charged or cancelled. The chains expansion is undirectional which means that adding new blocks is the only way to update a b...

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